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I mean that the philosopher John Locke was more of a libertarian. You're right Locke's (the TV character) first priority is the island, and individual happiness is secondary. I'm just wondering if Locke will experience some kind of shift in values that we're supposed to detect that would correspond to the different names.

I remember when I first started watching the show, I thought that they chose John Locke for the character's name because of his famous quote: "In the beginning, all the world was America." All he meant by this was that because the indigenous people hadn't settled the land in the same way that Europeans had, and that no property rights existed, it was a mix of hard, rugged, individual labour, protected by legal property rights, that would make America into a flourishing civilisation. So on the island, Locke represents this rugged individual that becomes charged with the responsibility to be the leader in a new society (or something like that, I think the analogy is pretty weak, really).

ETA: I just came across this interesting and relevant quote from a guy named Georg Kamphausen "Only by becoming Indians can [the settlers] survive in the colonies; they must return as hunters and gatherers to the first developmental stages of humanity ..."