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 ...

Want to raise a few eyebrows and launch a load of snickers? Use the word “virtuous” near the company water cooler or at the next meeting of the PTA. Better yet, say you want to teach your children the ...

Of the many inventions (bifocals, odometer), accomplishments (US postal system, Constitution) and experiments (that kite in a lightning storm) credited to Benjamin Franklin, none of his contributions ...

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 ...

Of all the Founders, Benjamin Franklin is the most compelling to me. Full of wit and wisdom, he has fascinated me since my college days. There are still things about him that astonish me, all these ...

In Part One of this two-part series on the universal call to virtue, I talked about how men and women are both called to holiness through living virtuously. I explained that a man’s virtues are ...

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 ...