How can we reduce interracial prejudice? A new study in The Journal of Positive Psychology has developed a novel approach using ideas about virtue. Their findings are preliminary but encouraging. Led ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although we don't have a detailed account of Aristotle's childhood, we do know that he was sent to Plato's Academy at 17, where he ...

One of the special features of logic-based therapy (LBT), in contrast to other forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is LBT’s matching of “guiding virtues” to “cardinal fallacies.” According to ...

Sophocles' Philoctetes explores the tragic clash of virtue and rationalism in a war-torn world where moral choices defy easy ...

Virtue, not technocratic solutions, is what I claimed our world needs more of, but I'm not saying anything new. Virtue goes back at least two-and-a-half millennia. Western accounts of virtue start ...

It is said that the single ornament adorning the walls of Immanuel Kant’s sparsely furnished study was a portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Tradition also has it that the only occasion on which Kant ...