The virtues of positive psychology: The rapprochement and challenges of anaffirmative postmodern perspective

Seligman (American Psychologist, 1999, 54, pp. 559-562) has called for the development of a positive psychology that explores and cultivates human str engths and virtues. Virtue represents an important and challenging construc t with the potential to integrative numerous areas of positive psychology s cience and practice. The construct of virtue will be defined by engaging th e moral philosophy of virtue ethics, and contemporary literatures on virtue in psychology will be briefly reviewed. Affirmative postmodern contributio ns and challenges to a positive psychology of virtue will be discussed.