For Kant, however, metaphysics could not provide knowledge of the supersensible, including the existence of God, the possibility of the realization of a highest good in the natural world, or the ability of human beings to realize that good through their endowments.
If you're looking for a vaguely frightening realization of just how good robots are getting at activities that require a high degree of optical precisions and fine motor control, than the video above has exactly what you need.
And the increasing realization that a good portion of health care is preventative at the consumer level: That fitness tracker that forces you to go on runs is also helping lessen your risk of heart disease.
I was sorting through my bookcase the other week and deciding which ones to keep or donate, and I came to a disquieting realization: Probably a good half of the books I loved growing up are now out of print.
Orthodox Neo-Confucianism viewed learning as one of the most basic methods of self-cultivation, one that contributed positively to the full realization of a person's morally good human nature.
Political status is not an end in itself, but a means to economic realization and the development of a good civilization".
'Bürger', the first component of the term, connotes not only citizenship, but also a bourgeois social condition and outlook, as well as an urban context for the realization of the good life.
Whitehead identified the presence of the divine with an apprehension of a "permanent rightness" in the scheme of things and based the validity of the experience on the claim that an adequate cosmology requires God as a principle of selection aiming at the realization of the good in the world process.
For instance, even if HIV has a good of its own this does not mean that we ought to assign any positive moral weight to the realization of that good.
The claim is that it can only be understood that something finite is good, if the infinite realization of the good is always already implicitly understood (and the same holds for being and the other transcendentals).
