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1) Materialism
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In the fields of philosophy and æsthetics, the term philistinism describes the social attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect; ‘the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine’. A philistine person is the man or woman who is smugly narrow of mind and of co...
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• (n.) The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3.
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Phi·lis'tin·ism noun The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See
Philistine , 3. [ Recent]
Carlyle. « On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- th...
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