CHAPTER 17
ROBERT COLES

Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1973 for his Children of Crisis. In this multivolume work, he offered firsthand accounts of children living through the process of school desegregation in the South. A prolific author, Dr. Coles has written extensively on the issues of moral and spiritual development. In this offering, we can follow him grappling with the distinction between being able to theorize and talk about virtue and being morally virtuous. Dr. Coles’s short reflection speaks to the difference that Aristotle draws between intellectual and moral virtue.