"Philistine" is a word in ENGLISH
A bailiff.
Of or pertaining to the Philistines.
A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement;
one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of
humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests.
Uncultured; commonplace.
A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast
region of southern Palestine.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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