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• n  a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
• n  a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
• a  of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people
• s  smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

• The tragedy of the times was that anyone with a sane idea was incarcerated by the authorities and hounded by a philistine public.
• The industrialists were way behind royalty and aristocrats in the pecking order; in fact they were regarded as philistine profiteers in the nineteenth century.
• Only a philistine will hang an artistic creation in the garage and a fake clay model in the living room.

• anti-intellectual
• lowbrow
• Philistine

News & Articles

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• Laws of nature, not U.N. key to Middle East peace
  According to the Bible, the Jewish people occupied the region now known as Palestine and portions of Jordan more than 2000 years ago. Ancient wars displaced the Jews from this land and in 700 A.D., an Arab conquest took control of the region and named it Philistine, modern-day Palestine.
  June 23, 2013 - The Lantern

Quotes

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• Rupert Murdoch in Wall Street Journal
  The Philistine phase of the digital age is almost over. The aggregators and the plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content,Mr. Murdoch said. "But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward...
• Debra Winger in Los Angeles Times
  Debra Winger, jury president of the 2009 Zurich Film Festival, called Polanski's case "all but dead" and said "despite the philistine nature of the collusion that has now occurred, we came to honor Roman Polanski as a great artist."
• Anthony Hopkins in Contactmusic.com
  Hopkins said that although he had made a few movies prior to playing Hannibal Lecter in that film, "none was successful enough to rescue me from the theater. I was trapped. You see, I'm a philistine at heart. The idea of spending the rest of my life...