I hadn't seen Lennick and Kiel yet, Christopher. Thanks so much for sharing those titles.
Sounds like they flesh out another aspect of the Interpersonal Intelligence as Goleman did with Emotional.
Children need good materials, especially if morality is not modeled at home.
Absolutely! Both personal AND social ethics/morality.
By the way, have you seen "Moral Intelligence" - there are two books with this title, by two different authors: Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel. And then there's the book by Robert Coles that relates to children.
Thank you!
Hi Christopher, we need more people concerned about ethics and morality in our time - that's for sure.
I've appreciated your additional contributions to my post. Thanks so much.
Hey Robyn, Wow! That's interesting. I think of Viktor Frankl, of course, reading this - although perhaps Gardner isn't going in quite the same direction. (Actually, sounds like he's tending more towards Moral Intelligence.) But definitely an interesting and potentially fruitful line of investigation.
Yes, Christopher, I agree that the exploration of a "spiritual intelligence could be interesting. Gardner actually explored the possibility of naming the "existential intelligence" in his book, "Intelligence Reframed." However, the existential intelligence did not fit all the parameters he had defined for an intelligence. So he did not go further with it, though he, himself is a practicing Jew.
Currently Gardner is exploring "Good Works" and has witten extensively on morality and ethics in our time. Because some of his family had been persecuted in Germany, he had a strong desire to focus on ethics and morality because he was concerned about the slide he notes here in the U.S.
And, he has been working with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," to author some of these recent books.
Hey Robyn,
Yes, I understand their commonalities and differences. And I think that Goleman's distinctions are helpful in advancing the conversation and explication of Multiple Intelligences. Also, the additional Intelligences that Gardner himself discussed later could be interesting, especially the spiritual or moral intelligence.
Hi Christopher, these intelligences are extremely important. Since I follow Howard Gardner's listing of intelligences, you'll see that emotional comes underneath the heading of intrapersonal, since that means to be centered within - emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. Goleman followed Gardner and chose to focus on just one aspect of what Gardner called Intrapersonal Intelligence.
Social intelligence and interpersonal intelligence go hand in hand.
It's just in the naming of these categories. Gardner applauded Goleman's work in emotional intelligence because he explored it more deeply.
Thanks so much for questioning me on this, Christopher, since many folks do use the other terms. We're on the same page.
I agree with you. BUT - what about Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence & Social Intelligence??
I think they're equally important, to say the least.
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