Existential Intelligence: The Last of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

  Have you ever heard about existential intelligence? As a matter of fact, it’s one of the great unknowns. That’s because, historically, definitions of intelligence didn’t include it. According to the Oxford Dictionary, intelligence is “the ability to learn, understand, and think in a logical way about things”. However, for psychology to establish a definition of this construct, it’s been a rather more complex matter. In this sense, depending on the historical context and the author, the notion of intelligence has acquired different nuances, to the point that, today, there are a variety of definitions. Next, we’ll take a look…