{"id":1855,"date":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2009\/01\/12\/the-pursuit-of-happiness\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-pursuit-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2009\/01\/12\/the-pursuit-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pursuit of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory \u2013 Happiness Object \u2013 The search, relativity and morality of the emotion Concepts \u2013 ethics, relativity, utilitarianism and materialism  Thinkers \u2013 Montaigne, Plato and Schopenhauer  <\/p>\n<p>The search for happiness seems to be a part of the human condition. It is a sometimes selfish, ambition that the human race, and western world culture specifically, feels is owed to them.  <\/p>\n<p>-What are the pre-requisites of happiness?<br \/>\n-Is it natural?<br \/>\n-Is happiness relative, i.e.: can the poor be as happy as the rich? Can the unintelligent be as happy and the intelligent?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is Schopenhauer\u2019s pessimistic view of the possibility of happiness understandable?<br \/>\n&#8211; Does money and material gain lead to happiness or is it merely a superficial fa\u00e7ade?<br \/>\n-Is it essential?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Willis, 2009, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,22,128],"tags":[276,545,39],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-540","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-happiness","tag-montaigne","tag-plato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}