Using just my basic philosophical knowledge (thank god I did my Philosophy exam last week
) John Locke was a very stern empiricist who firmly believed that there was no suh thing as a future or fate, he was very much a believer of 'What you see is what you get'. He only believed in what he could experience. However this is a heavily epistemeogical theory. Jeremy Bentham was more focused on moral issues. He believed that a moral act was based on the pleasure and pain that an individual act caused. Therefore a moral act was one that caused the greatest amount of pleasure for the greaer amount of people. Yet if my memory serves me right, Bentham also looked at phenomenalism that stated that things exist if they have te possibility of being perceived. In this sense there is a great difference between John Locke and Jeremy Bentham the philosophers.
As far as Locke being dead, and I said this in my review, do not overlook the possibility of him coming back to life once he reaches the Island. Thus why the O6 need to take him back. Sayid stated that Locke commited suicide, but obviously didn't seem to convinced; and I'm usually one to believe Sayid. My theory is that Locke went to the real world to talk to the O6 but somehow got trapped in the real world, unable to return to the Island. Because of this his life slowly ebbed away. Thus no signs of murder and the conclusion of suicide. But upon returning to the Island, the communion between Locke and the Island will be resumed and perhaps, just perhaps, Locke could wake up from the eternal slumber. Unfortunately
