Lost Video Island

xXAngelicEvilXx

Jeremy. Bentham.

Look his grave up here and read a little about him. Like John Locke, he was also a philosopher.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bentham&GSfn=jeremy&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1832&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=3365&

Utilitarianism is is the idea that the moral worth of an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility in maximizing happiness or pleasure as summed among all persons.

Sounds familiar....huh?

wolffootball37 · Expert Vidder Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 4210

Hehehe. Good find. I found that out after the episode. ALLOT of the characters on the show are named after philosophers. Desmond HUME, Danielle, Mikhail, Even one of the CM'S user names is named after a philosopher! Ill let you guys guess which one!

(HINT: Its not me

)

SassyLostie2 · Expert Vidder Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 28138

Cool, Erin! I did know JB was a real person, but I didn't know anything about him.

Yeah, I've noticed that Lost has 'stolen' many philosophers'/scientists' names over the years. hehe I figured out that Faraday's name was significant pretty early on, Locke and Cooper's too. There are tons. I used to actually look up the names of new characters in Lost every time we were introduced to them, to see if there was any historical significance. Wow, do I need a life, or what?

Oh, and thanks for the awesome hint, Trey!! I sooo thought that a famous philosopher was named "wolffootball37" but I guess I was wrong.

lol Shows how much I know.

_________________

leylin · Council Member Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 1286

wow! nice find!!
...u know, its funny... comparing him and ben, their eyes are totaly the opposite! hehe. (ben's are poped out, his are small)..hehe
_________________

just to let everyone know,
me + spelling = hjansbdadfk;a

NepEnut · Expert Vidder Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 8446

I knew from the beginning that John Locke's name was stolen from a philosopher. But I didn't know just how many others were also taken from famous philosophers.

You really got to hand it to the writers for their attention to detail!

The name Jeremy Bentham sounded familiar to me, but after the show when I read up on him, ooooohhhh - I got flashbacks to my evil, evil literary analysis class my last year of college.

We read up a lot on the whole concept of the Panopticon, which was a JB invention.....

Damn you Lost for making me remember that evil mind-explodingly difficult class....

_________________