Philistines as social and cultural phenomenon: on the example of domestic literary and philosophical thought and journalism

The article is devoted to complex and interesting social and cultural issue related to the essential characteristics of the phenomenon of the petty bourgeoisie. To this phenomenon are often treated the most outstanding representatives of the national literary-philosophical thought and journalism. Most of them were evaluated negatively philistinism, saw the picture here averaged, materialism, lack of spirituality, social passivity. In parallel with the negative in the article is allocated a positive interpretation of the phenomenon of philistinism, which was also presented in the Russian literary and philosophical thought. Its supporters saw in the bourgeoisie a root beginning of the national life, developed over centuries, samples of the moral health and virtue.