lisarenae0561
01-24-2009, 07:05 AM
I was reading the Wikipedia entry for Meaning of Life and came across 2 things in there from Lost. One was the word Dharma. In Hinduisim there are 4 possible aims to human life: Kama (love and sensual pleasure), Artha (wealth), Dharma (righteousness and morality), and Moshka (liberation from the reincarnation cycle).
The other was Jeremy Bentham. He believed that mankind was under the governance of two masters, pain and pleasure. Everything we do is to seek pleasure or avoid pain. So to determine whether an action is morally right, he developed the Rule of Utility: that which is good is whatever brings the greatest happiness (or pleasure) to the greatest number of people.
Both of those references have to do with morality. There's also references in the show to the Bible, philosophers, and recently there's alot to do with destiny. There's alot of deeper issues running through the show. Could the purpose of Lost be to reveal to us some deep concept like The Meaning of Life?
Don't forget the C.S. Lewis reference in the show (Charlotte Lewis). C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, great entertaining adventures (like Lost) that illustrated deeper Christian concepts like sin, humanity's fall from grace, and redemption.
You know some books or movies that are really thought provoking that you think about for a while after they end? I wonder if that's what Lost will be like, like after it ends we'll just say "whooooaa..."
The other was Jeremy Bentham. He believed that mankind was under the governance of two masters, pain and pleasure. Everything we do is to seek pleasure or avoid pain. So to determine whether an action is morally right, he developed the Rule of Utility: that which is good is whatever brings the greatest happiness (or pleasure) to the greatest number of people.
Both of those references have to do with morality. There's also references in the show to the Bible, philosophers, and recently there's alot to do with destiny. There's alot of deeper issues running through the show. Could the purpose of Lost be to reveal to us some deep concept like The Meaning of Life?
Don't forget the C.S. Lewis reference in the show (Charlotte Lewis). C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, great entertaining adventures (like Lost) that illustrated deeper Christian concepts like sin, humanity's fall from grace, and redemption.
You know some books or movies that are really thought provoking that you think about for a while after they end? I wonder if that's what Lost will be like, like after it ends we'll just say "whooooaa..."