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=Definition= | |||
Love of wisdom | |||
=Antonym= | |||
*Philamathis - love of ignorance | |||
*Sophophobia - fear of learning [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-suffering-from-sophophobia-jaques-booysen/] | |||
*Misosophy - hate of wisdom | |||
*Misology - hate of knowledge | |||
*Miswit - made it up - hater of knowledge | |||
*Phobosophy - hate of wisdom [https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/286956/the-converse-of-philosophy] | |||
*Philistine - hater of culture, art, spiritaulity, intellect | |||
=Philistine= | |||
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]] (1899–1977) describes the philistine man and woman as: | |||
A full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time. I have said "full-grown" person because the child or the adolescent who may look like a small philistine is only a small parrot mimicking the ways of confirmed vulgarians, and it is easier to be a parrot than to be a white heron. "Vulgarian" is more or less synonymous with "philistine": the stress in a vulgarian is not so much on the conventionalism of a philistine, as on the vulgarity of some of his conventional notions. I may also use the terms "genteel" and "bourgeois". Genteel implies the lace-curtain refined vulgarity, which is worse than simple coarseness. To burp in company may be rude, but to say "excuse me" after a burp is genteel, and thus worse than vulgar. The term bourgeois I use following Flaubert, not Marx. Bourgeois, in Flaubert's sense, is a state of mind, not a state of pocket. A bourgeois is a smug philistine, a dignified vulgarian . . . generally speaking, philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization, where, throughout the ages, certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.[11] | |||
=Other Words= | |||
*Phobophile - one who loves fear | |||
*Kakistocracy - government by the least qualified, most stupid people | |||
*idiophile - lover of idiots? | |||
*Learning to love dumb people - [https://www.chaddavid.ca/learning-to-love-dumb-people/] | |||
*Misanthrope - hater of people | |||
*Midwit - [https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/06/beware-midwit-trap] | |||
*Dimwit | |||
*Miswit - hater of knowledge | |||
Latest revision as of 07:21, 5 August 2024
Definition
Love of wisdom
Antonym
- Philamathis - love of ignorance
- Sophophobia - fear of learning [1]
- Misosophy - hate of wisdom
- Misology - hate of knowledge
- Miswit - made it up - hater of knowledge
- Phobosophy - hate of wisdom [2]
- Philistine - hater of culture, art, spiritaulity, intellect
Philistine
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) describes the philistine man and woman as:
A full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time. I have said "full-grown" person because the child or the adolescent who may look like a small philistine is only a small parrot mimicking the ways of confirmed vulgarians, and it is easier to be a parrot than to be a white heron. "Vulgarian" is more or less synonymous with "philistine": the stress in a vulgarian is not so much on the conventionalism of a philistine, as on the vulgarity of some of his conventional notions. I may also use the terms "genteel" and "bourgeois". Genteel implies the lace-curtain refined vulgarity, which is worse than simple coarseness. To burp in company may be rude, but to say "excuse me" after a burp is genteel, and thus worse than vulgar. The term bourgeois I use following Flaubert, not Marx. Bourgeois, in Flaubert's sense, is a state of mind, not a state of pocket. A bourgeois is a smug philistine, a dignified vulgarian . . . generally speaking, philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization, where, throughout the ages, certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.[11]