{"id":1972,"date":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2011\/01\/12\/nietzsche-models-of-self-help-in-contemporary-britain\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"nietzsche-models-of-self-help-in-contemporary-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2011\/01\/12\/nietzsche-models-of-self-help-in-contemporary-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nietzsche &amp; Models of Self-Help in Contemporary Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aim: To develop a project that looked at why Britain\u2019s happiness on the whole is in decline. <\/p>\n<p>Methodology: To compare contemporary attitudes with those of the 1950\u2019s.  Is the definition of depression still the same?  An examination of self-help guides. What do these manuals claim will make us happier? <\/p>\n<p>Thinkers:  Oliver James \u2013 A clinical psychologist and writer. His primary thoughts indicate that our relatively new \u2018keeping up with the Joneses\u2019 attitude is what is leading us to emotional distress.  Nietzsche \u2013 Christianity only provides us with a sense of guilt; Buddhism is a better religion to follow. <\/p>\n<p>Conclusion:  Guides can provide us with a renewed sense of cheerfulness on the whole. Yet, it is important to be aware that although they have the ability to make us happy for a short period of time, they most certainly cannot cure us from anything more serious than an episode of the blues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Whelan, 2011, 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":[580,22,128],"tags":[276,6,315],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-580","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-happiness","tag-nietzsche","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}