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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Virtues and Vices in Positive Psychology

Kristján Kristjánsson · 2013
82/100
👍 Worth It

Kristjánsson fills a genuine gap: before this book, no one had subjected positive psychology's virtue claims to sustained Aristotelian philosophical scrutiny, and he does it rigorously without being dismissive. The constructive angle — aiming to improve positive psychology rather than bury it — gives the work real scholarly value beyond score-settling. Dense enough that only readers already fluent in both Aristotelian ethics and positive psychology will get full use from it.

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