MI Chapter 14

Chapter 14 is a short chapter that suggests there might be a ninth intelligence. The existential intelligence deals with the “ultimate life issues”. Meaning that the questions in life that are hardest to answer such as: the significance of life, death, and love. Gardener considers this the be an intelligence because it fit’s the criteria for an intelligence. It has a cultural value and is documented historically in books and autobiographies. There are symbols used in a system such as Christianity and Buddism in religious structures. The intelligence even has people who are great hosts of this skill such as people with deeper understanding of life or a person who has the capacity to ask existential questions. Gardener goes on to tell about subjects that this intelligence can be shown in and how it benefit’s the subject. I find that being able ask existential questions and being able to answer those questions show that that person can think deeply and focus on what truly matters.