Chapter 14 of Multiple Intelligences discusses a potential ninth intelligence, that of the existential. It discusses the arguments for and against including existential intelligence as one of the intelligences, and goes over ways it could be integrated into the different subject areas. I have an even harder time going with this one than with the naturalist intelligence, because I question the validity of the “deeper questions” it purports to be about. At the same time, I feel those questions will permeate the curriculum that I will be teaching. The problem is they’re just too big. When a person is developing a thesis statement, the advice they are given is often to narrow it down. In the same way, a question like “Why are we here?” is so large that it’s impossible to answer. It should be broken down into manageable chunks, because trying to work out an answer from that impossibly big question is a worthless endeavor.
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