From Philosophical Research
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extreme
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- prototype notes
- absolute weasel word. the strangest thing is I can't think of the exact antonym: it isn't center, moderate, middle-ground, normal, reasonable, equatorial. I think in an Existentialist perspective the antonym may actually be "tolerant". "extreme" conceals the concept of totalization and the contrast to a morality-based view of individual tolerance of absolutely anything and everything from other individuals or groups unless it is absolutely hazardous. (previously I had this at L58, but it belongs much more nicely next to degree)
Definitions[edit]
- common definition
- represented by Lexeme form
- extreme
- grammatical category
- adjective (A)
- natural-language name of Sense
- extreme
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Having average and unremarkable characteristics yet supposedly being just loathsome enough to people with bad opinions to if asserted loudly enough become a kind of weapon against said enemy Social-Philosophical System.
- field
- radical-Liberalism
- Existentialist-Structuralist tradition
- natural-language name of Sense
- extreme (unauthorized by fascism)
- used by author
- Slavoj Žižek
- @Vaush
- note
- I don't remember if Žižek has used "extreme", but I absolutely know he's used "terrorism" with this meaning
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