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In modern usage, a philistine is a person lacking in ordinary values and morality. This meaning derives from the Philistines, a people described in The Bible in uncomplementary terms because of their confrontations with the early Hebrews in Palestine.

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Several internet sources define the term philistinism as "a 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'"

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