INDEX

Oceanic Flight 815 Manifest

Aaron

authenticity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethics of objectification and

ideology and

meaning of life and

moral obligation and

redemption and

state of nature and

ABC

Abraham (biblical)

Abrams, J. J.

acedia

Adam (biblical)

aesthetic lifestyle, ethical lifestyle vs.

agent-specific theories

Ajax (Euripides)

Alexandra (Alex)

authenticity and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics of objectification and

ideology and

state of nature and

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)

allegory

Alpert, Richard (character)

coincidence and

continuity and

ideology and

reality and

redemption and

Alpert, Richard (philosopher)

Althusser, Louis

Amy

Ana Lucia

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

ideology and

moral obligation and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

apocalypse

Aquinas, Thomas

on existence of God

on God and free will

on God and happiness

on God and knowledge

on God and reason

on God and truth

state of nature and

Aristotle

reality and

state of nature and

time travel and

on virtue ethics

Arzt

Aslan (Narnia character)

Augustine of Hippo

Austen, Kate

authenticity and

counterfactual reasoning and

continuity and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

ethics of objectification and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and

reality and

state of nature and

time travel and

Austin, Kate Cooper (philosopher)

authenticity

faith and morality

faith vs. reason

“I-Thou” relationship and

worldview and

autonomy

Bacon, Kevin

bad faith

Bakunin, Mikhail (character)

Bakunin, Mikhail (philosopher)

Being and Nothingness (Sartre)

Bentham, Jeremy (philosopher)

Bernard

Bible

authenticity and

state of nature and

See also individual names of biblical figures

birthday paradox

“Blue Cross, The” (Chesterson)

bonum perfectum (supreme good)

branching-universe model, of time

Brontë, Charlotte

Buber, Martin

Buddhism

Burke, Edmund (character)

Burke, Edmund (philosopher)

Burke, Juliet (character)

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethics of objectification and

finding God and

ideology and

metaphysics of time travel and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

time travel and

Callis, Kevin

Calypso (Lost character)

Calypso (Odyssey character)

Campbell, Brother

Camus, Albert

card games, probability and

Carlyle, Boone (character)

authenticity and

coincidence and

meaning of life and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

Carlyle, Thomas (philosopher)

Carneades the Skeptic

Carroll, Lewis

causality

causal loop and time travel

coincidence and

Chang, Dr. Pierre

authenticity and

continuity and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and

character(s)

Lost as character study

multitude of

reality, identity, and

use of flashbacks in Lost and

Chesterson, G. K.

Christianity, revelation and. See also redemption

Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

community and

conflict and

faith and

fantasy and

good vs. evil and

myth vs. allegory and

circumstantial ignorance

Cive, De (Hobbes)

Claudia. See Mother

coincidence

conspiracy vs.

deception experiments and

defined

divine providence, fate, determinism, and

intellectual curiosity and

probability and

“Small World Study” (Milgram) and

synchronicity and

collective unconsciousness

Colleen

community, redemption and

Concept of the Political, The (Schmitt)

conceptual distinction

condemnation

confirmation bias

conflict, redemption and

conspiracy, coincidence vs.

continuity

alternative account of time and

causal loop and

eternalism and

external time vs. personal time

grandfather paradox and

nature of time and

principle of indiscernibility of identicals

time travel concepts and

See also time travel

contradiction

Cooper, Anthony

authenticity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethics and condemnation

finding God and

moral obligation and parent/child relationship

state of nature and

Cortez, Ana Lucia. See Ana Lucia

“Counterfactual Dependence and Time’s Arrow” (Lewis)

counterfactual reasoning

counterfactual conditionals (counterfactuals), defined

plausibility of

practical application of

courage, reality and

“Culpability and Ignorance” (Rosen)

cultural relativism

defined

endorsement of

problems of

subjectivism compared to

Cuse, Carlton

on faith themes of Lost

on influence of his faith

on Jack Shephard/John Locke relationship

on Lost and The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)

on message/meaning of Lost

on Oceanic Six return to island

on redemption themes

Cyclops (Odyssey character)

Dave

reality and

redemption and

Dawson, Michael. See Michael

deception experiments

DeFoe, Daniel

de Groot, Gerald (character)

de Groot, Hugo (philosopher)

de Groot, Karen (character)

Derrida, Jacques

destiny

determinism

authenticity and

coincidence and

Dharma Initiative

authenticity and

continuity and

ethics of objectification and

ideology and

metaphysics of time travel and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

time travel and

See also individual names of characters

Digory (Narnia character)

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Rousseau)

divine providence

Dogen (character)

Dogen (philosopher)

duality

Eko, Mr.

authenticity and

coincidence and

ethical subjectivism and

finding God and

ideology and

meaning of life and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

Emerson, Michael. See also Linus, Ben

empiricism, Tao and

enemies, state of nature and

English, Jane

Enlightenment

epics

Epicureans

epistemology

authenticity and

coincidence and

finding God and

meaning of life and

reality and

equality of ability

eternalism

continuity and

fatalism and

ethical subjectivism

cultural relativism/subjectivism, defined

cultural relativism/subjectivism, endorsement of

cultural relativism/subjectivism, problems of

ethics

aesthetic vs. ethical lifestyle

condemnation and

ethical subjectivism

moral obligation in parent/child relationships

of objectification

of time travel

Euripides

Eustace (Narnia character)

Eve (biblical)

existentialism

authenticity and

meaning of life and

external time, personal time vs.

faith

authenticity and

God and

metaphysics and

redemption and

search for

Tao of

See also redemption

Faith on Earth (Niebuhr)

falsifiability

fandom (“Losties”)

fantasy, redemption and

Faraday, Daniel (character)

authenticity and

continuity and

ethics and condemnation

finding God and

metaphysics of time travel and

Faraday, Michael (philosopher)

fatalism

fate, coincidence and

father/son relationships. See parent/child relationships

fear

“first truth,”

flashbacks

coincidence and

flash-forwards and ideology

“flash-sideways” and

time travel and

use of, in Lost

Flash Forward (ABC)

Ford, James. See Sawyer

Fox, Matthew. See also Shephard, Jack

framed conflict

free will

authenticity and

coincidence and

metaphysics of time travel and

French Woman

friendship

moral obligation and

state of nature and

Gale, Henry

authenticity and

ethics of objectification and

redemption and

See also Linus, Ben

Gandhi, Mohandas

God

authenticity and

existence of

free will and

happiness and

knowledge and

meaning of life and

metaphysics and

reason and

trust and

truth and

God without Being (Marion)

“good guys”

ideology and

state of nature and

goods, just distribution of

Goodspeed, Horace

good vs. evil

grandfather paradox

Greek tragedies

group in fusion

happiness

Hawking, Eloise (character)

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

redemption and

time travel and

Hawking, Stephen (philosopher)

Heatherton, Lucy

Heidegger, Martin

Helen

Henderson, Rose

Henry V (Shakespeare character)

Heroes

Hertwig, Ralph

Hinduism

Hitler, Adolf

Hobbes, Thomas

Homer

“home,” search for

Horse and His Boy, The (Lewis). See Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

Hugh of St. Victor

Hugo. See also Hurley

Hume, David (philosopher)

authenticity and

state of nature and

Hume, Desmond David (character)

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

finding God and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

reality and

redemption and

Tao and

time travel and

Hurley

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethics and condemnation

finding God and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

time travel and

Iago (Shakespeare character)

identity

authenticity and

ideology and

reality, character, and

ideological state apparatus (ISA)

ideology

fear and

“good guys” and

identity and

interpellation and

recognition and

skepticism and

if-then statements

ignorance, circumstantial vs. normative

Ilana

immigration, ideology and

“inference is the best explanation,”

informed consent

innocence, state of nature and

intellectual curiosity

interpellation, ideology and

intolerance, ethical subjectivism and

Isaac (biblical)

Isaac of Uluru

“I-Thou” relationship

Jacob

authenticity and

coincidence and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics of objectification and

finding God and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics and duality

metaphysics of time travel and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

Jane Eyre (Brontë)

Jarrah, Sayid

continuity and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics of objectification and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

Jesus

Jill (Narnia character)

Jin

counterfactual reasoning and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

finding God and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Job

Johnson, Kevin

judging, reality and

Jung, Carl

Kant, Immanuel

Karl

Kate

finding God and

redemption and

Tao and

Kaye, Sharon

Kelvin

Kierkegaard, Soren

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

King Lear (Shakespeare)

knowledge. See epistemology

Kwon, Jin-Soo. See Jin

Kwon, Sun-Hwa. See Sun

Lady of the Green Kirtle (Narnia character)

Lao Tzu

Lapidus, Frank

Last Battle, The (Lewis). See Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

LeFleur, Jim

Lennon, John (philosopher)

Lennon (character)

Leviathan (Hobbes)

Levinas, Emmanuel

Lewis, C. S. (philosopher)

audience of Narnia books and

community themes of

conflict themes of

faith themes of

on fantasy

good vs. evil themes of

myth vs. allegory themes of

Lewis, Charlotte Staples (character)

continuity and

ideology and

metaphysics of time travel and

Lewis, David

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

Liam

Libby

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

meaning of life and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

liberalism, state of nature and

life, after death

Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The (DeFoe)

lifestyle, aesthetic vs. ethical

Lilith (MacDonald)

Lindelof, Damon

on faith themes of Lost

on Jack/Locke relationship

on Lost and The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)

on Lost as character study

on message/meaning of Lost

on time travel

Linus, Ben

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

ethics of objectification and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

time travel and

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis). See Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

Littleton, Claire

authenticity and

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethics of objectification and

finding God and

ideology and

meaning of life and

moral obligation and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

Locke, John (character)

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

finding God and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and parent/child relationship

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

time travel and

Locke, John (philosopher)

authenticity and

empiricism and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

state of nature and

“Look,” authenticity and

Lost

casting of

characters of (See also individual names of characters)

as epic

fandom of

influence of television program

use of flashbacks in(See also flashbacks)

See also Abrams, J. J.; Cuse, Carlton; Lindelof, Damon

Lost and Philosophy (Kaye)

Lost Survivor Guide, The

love, state of nature and

Lucas, George

MacDonald, George

Magician’s Nephew, The (Lewis). See Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

Malkin, Mr.

Man in Black

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

ethical subjectivism and

ideology and

metaphysics and duality

metaphysics of time travel and

redemption and

state of nature and

mankind, nature of

Marion, Jean-Luc

Mars, Marshal Edward

McTaggart, John

meaning of life

asking “why are we here?” and

existentialism and

meaningful patterns and

search for “home” and

Meaning of Revelation, The (Niebuhr)

Mellow, David

memory

coincidence and

moral memory

Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)

metanarrative

metaphysics

Michael

condemnation and

ethical subjectivism and

ideology and

as Kevin Johnson

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)

Miles

authenticity and

continuity and

ideology and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and

reality and

Milgram, Stanley

Mill, John Stuart

Minkowski, George (character)

Minkowski, Hermann (philosopher)

moral autonomy

moral memory

moral obligation

motivation and

obligation of child to parent

sacrifice and

Moriah

Mother

authenticity and

ethical subjectivism and

metaphysics and

motivation, moral obligation and

Mulder, Special Agent Fox

myth, allegory vs.. See also redemption

“Myth of Gyges, The” (Plato)

Naomi

finding God and

ideology and

state of nature and

time travel and

narrative time, viewer’s time vs.

Nathan

natural rights, state of nature and

Nazis

Niebuhr, H. Richard

nihilism, authenticity and

normative ignorance

“Obedience Experiment” (Milgram)

objectification

moral autonomy and

redemption and

utility and

virtue ethics and

Oceanic Six

continuity and

finding God and

redemption and

Tao and

See also individual names of characters

Odysseus (Odyssey character)

Odyssey (Homer)

Oedipus Rex

Oka, Masi

On the Plurality of Worlds (Lewis)

“On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (Lewis)

O’Quinn, Terry. See also Locke, John (character)

Original Position

Ortega y Gasset, José

Ortmann, Andreas

Others

authenticity and

coincidence and

ethics of objectification and

ideology and

metaphysics of time travel and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

See also individual names of characters

Otherwise than Being (Levinas)

Pace, Charlie

coincidence and

continuity and

ethics of objectification and

finding God and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

parent/child relationships

motivation and

obligation of child to parent

sacrifice and

patterns, meaning and

Penelope (Odyssey character)

Penny

authenticity and

continuity and

finding God and

metaphysics of time travel and

redemption and

state of nature and

personal time, external time vs.

Peter, Aquinas and

Pevensie, Edmund (Narnia character)

Pevensie, Lucy (Narnia character)

Phantastes and Lilith (MacDonald)

philosophers

Alpert

Austin

Bakunin

Bentham

Burke

Carlyle

de Groot

Dogen

Faraday

Hawking

Hume

Kierkegaard

Lennon

Lewis

Locke

Minkowski

Rousseau

Rutherford

Said

See also individual names of philosophers

Pickett

Plague, The (Camus)

Plato

plot

complication of

contradiction and

Poetics (Aristotle)

Popper, Karl

“preambles to the articles of faith,”

presentism

presumption

prima facie duties

Prince Caspian (Lewis). See Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

principle of indiscernibility of identicals

prisoners’ dilemma

probability

Puddleglum (Narnia character)

purgatory

race

ethical subjectivism and

ideology and

Rai Due (Italian TV channel)

Rashomon (Japanese film)

rationality

Rawls, John

reality

character and identity

judging and

values and

reason

faith vs.

God and

recognition, ideology and

reconciliation, moral obligation and

redemption

community and

conflict and

faith and

fantasy and

good vs. evil

myth vs. allegory

repressive state apparatus (RSA)

Republic (Plato)

revelation

riches, God and

Right and the Good, The (Ross)

Robinson Crusoe (DeFoe)

roles, state of nature and

Rom, Ethan

coincidence and

continuity and

ethics of objectification and

state of nature and

romance

meaning of life and

moral obligation and

Rose

finding God and

meaning of life and

redemption and

state of nature and

Rosen, Gideon

Ross, W. D.

Rousseau, Danielle (character)

ideology and

time travel and

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (philosopher)

rules, state of nature and

Ruth

Rutherford, Samuel (philosopher)

Rutherford, Shannon (character)

meaning of life and

redemption and

state of nature and

sacrifice, moral obligation and

Said, Edward

Sartre, Jean-Paul

authenticity and

meaning of life and

Sawyer

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

ethics of objectification and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and

moral obligation and parent/child relationship

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

time travel and

Schmitt, Carl

scientific method

self-interest, state of nature and

sex

meaning of life and

state of nature and

Shakespeare, William

shared language, equality of ability and

Shephard, Christian

authenticity and

continuity and

meaning of life and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and parent/child relationship

Shephard, Jack

authenticity and

coincidence and

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

ethics of objectification and

finding God and

ideology and

meaning of life and

metaphysics and

metaphysics of time travel and

moral obligation and parent/child relationship

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

time travel and

“shielding,”

Shylock (Shakespeare character)

Sidgwick, Henry

Silver Chair, The (Lewis). See Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

“Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,”

“six degrees of separation,”

skepticism

authenticity and

ideology and

Skywalker, Luke (Star Wars character)

slavery, ethical subjectivism and

“Small World Study” (Milgram)

Smoke Monster

ethics of objectification and

redemption and

state of nature and

Social Contract (Rousseau)

society

ideology and

state of nature and

Socrates

“Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” (Lewis)

Song of Myself (Whitman)

Star Wars

state of nature

cooperation and

defined

equality of ability and

framed conflict and

friendship and common enemies

friendship and feeling

“good guys” and

natural rights and

nature of mankind and

roles and rules of

self-interest and

tragedies of the commons and

subjectivism

cultural relativism compared to

defined

endorsement of

problems of

Sun

continuity and

counterfactual reasoning and

moral obligation and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

Susan

synchronicity

tabula rasa

Tao

destiny and

empiricism and

metaphysics and

transformation and

Taoism

Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)

Telemachus (Odyssey character)

Tempest, The (Shakespeare)

Theory of Justice, A (Rawls)

time

continuity

defined

fixed/static view of

time travel

time travel

continuity and

contradiction and

counterfactual reasoning and

defined

fatalism and

metaphysics and ethics of

multitude of characters and

narrative time vs. viewer’s time

plot complication and

“tit for tat,”

Tolkien, J. R. R.

torture, state of nature and

Totality and Infinity (Levinas)

tragedies of the commons

transformation

Treatise on Government (Locke)

trust

truth

utility

values

viewer’s time, narrative time vs.

Vincent

violence

virtue ethics

Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The (Lewis). See Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)

Walt

ethical subjectivism and

ethics and condemnation

ideology and

moral obligation and

reality and

redemption and

state of nature and

Tao and

“war of all against all,”

White Witch (Narnia character)

Whitman, Walt

“Why are we here?”

Widmore, Charles

authenticity and

ideology and

metaphysics and

redemption and

state of nature and

time travel and

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wizard of Oz, The (Baum)

worldview (Weltanschauung), authenticity and

yin-yang symbol

Yoda (Star Wars character)