Virtues are not just a matter of personal growth; they can apply to business practices as well. The top virtues of a business are those practices and policies that speak to the positive way in which a ...

Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding ...

During the summer of 2005, Martin Seligman convened a meeting of the world’s leading experts in the emerging field of positive psychology. Held at the University of Pennsylvania, Seligman dubbed the ...

It’s true that the word “virtue,” with connotations of self-sacrifice and Victorian morality, can be rather off-putting. Yet, for many ancient Greeks and Romans—Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics ...

A FEW YEARS AGO I found myself in a rather dark place. The bottom had dropped out from under me in several areas of my life. It started when I stopped believing in the religion I grew up in, got worse ...