In his view the commonsense belief is correct. The moon does exist in objective reality whether or not anyone is observing it (Bradley, 1979) Thus, if you go on a realist field trip to an apple orchard, you will see trees loaded with round red, green and yellow apples
Human beings interact with nature, and human intelligence is social. For individuals such as William James and John Dewey this led to a development of a moral psychology and a value theory from which Dewey created a philosophy of education which stressed that children should be involved with real life-tasks and challenges (Campbell, 1995)
Soren Kierkegaard was the first philosopher to use the term existentialism. He reacted against systematic rational philosophy, especially of Hegel, and supported the notion of a truth inside of the evolving self (Heidegger, 1956)
Let us assume that some individual should instantly become the King of China, with the further constraint that he would lose all memory concerning his former life just as if he would be born anew. Wouldn't that -- practically speaking -- be indistinguishable from the situation in which the individual would be destroyed and a King of China brought into being at the same moment and the same place? The individual has no reason to wish for that (Mates, 1986)
Would he repeat his statement, "Peoples and governments never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it"? Or, would he stress his stance that war is a necessary movement of spirit as it evolved. War is the result of conflicts within spirit as it struggled to actualize the idea that "all are free" in history (Pippin, 1989)