Character Strengths and Virtues
by Christopher Peterson and Martin E. P. Seligman
The 'manual of the sanities': twenty-four character strengths under six virtues (wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence), with the research on each. Eight hundred pages; a reference, not a read.
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- Twenty-four strengths, six virtues.
- Use signature strengths in new ways.
- Character can be classified and grown.
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The manual of the sanities.
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