LOST fans

[JohnFKennedy]

I never thought that the show gave him the name purposely.

Well by all accounts they did and supposedly Rousseau is a reference to Jean-Jacques (though not sure about that one).

There is an episode called Tabula Rasa which is an idea mainly cultivated by John Locke. The ideas that Locke (tv show) espouses are fundamentally similar to those of the real John Locke and the name of Locke's father in the show is that of John Locke's philosophical mentor; Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper.