Educating the Virtues: Essay on the Philosophical Psychology of Moral Development and Education

by David Carr

This work seeks to outline an approach to moral education based on the promotion of moral virtues. Starting from a critical appreciation of past philosophers, and proceeding by way of more recent theorists, the book examines the nature of moral virtues and a number of theses concerning them.

294 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 1991

About the author

David Carr was a journalist who wrote for The New York Times. His peers often praised him for his humility and candor.

Carr overcame an addiction to cocaine and wrote about his experiences as an addict in The Night of the Gun. The New Yorker called it "bracingly honest memoir. In sharp and sometimes poetic prose, the author takes a detailed inventory of his years of drug addiction."

In February, 2015 he collapsed in the New York Times newsroom and was pronounced dead shortly after. He was married to Jill Carr and had three children.