Understanding Feeling Intelligence: Emotions and Reason
Understanding Feeling Intelligence
A human “feeling intelligence,” by which intelligence is inseparable from feeling. Human beings have a way of feeling that shows things not as realities but as stimuli. You can say that people feel understood intellectually or sentiently, and that our relationship with reality is not merely intellectual but also sentient. Finally, psychology theories are supported by David Goleman’s sentient intelligence and emotional intelligence theory.
For Goleman, intelligence is something that needs to include other skills related to feeling. He defines emotional intelligence as “a meta-skill that determines the degree of skill that we can achieve in the domain of our faculties,” or, put otherwise, it would be the ability to recognize one’s own and others’ feelings and the ability to handle them.
To develop emotional intelligence, you must have:
- Emotional awareness (recognize own or others’ feelings)
- Self-management (i.e., managing feelings)
- Motivation
- Empathy (putting yourself in the other’s shoes)
- Social skills (ability to create situations that allow us to improve social relations)
The reason cordial is based on human beings not only discovering the truth through rational arguments but also through emotions and feelings. We relate based on our feelings and interpret events as the feeling that we produce.
The emotions and feelings select information that is relevant to our lives. Do not understand the heart, the affections, and emotions as opposed to pure mathematical reason, but as something that extends the scope of reality.
The reason is in charge of interpreting heart projects and proposals to extend theoretical understanding. Similarly, the heart is the source of motivation for the achievements of reason.
The Concept of Person
Man is a personal being. “Persons” Root: Person comes from the Greek mask (prosopon) which means mask. According to its etymology, we can say that person means character. The current meaning of a person appeared in the early centuries of Christianity both to name the three persons of the Trinity as a human being. Among the Romans, it acquired a legal sense. One person was a legal subject, the bearer of rights and duties.
The classic definition was given by Boethius in the fourth century: “individual substance of rational nature.”
- Individual substance: the human being is in the hands of destination or at the same level as other things, subsisting itself and not the other.
- Rational nature: the human being is part of nature, but to have a rational nature is endowed with self-consciousness, will, and sociability.
Kantian Root
Kant gives a more moral definition of the person. The person is to be free (autonomous), capable of giving laws to itself, able to create together the world of natural law, a moral world. Being the person gives self-dignity, because laws can be yourself, no one can instrumentalize you. For Kant, the person has absolute value, is an “end in itself,” and should not be used as a means to something else (mutual respect).
Personal Reality
The staff considers the human being as a person, individual, and communal reality.
For relationships between people are constitutive for them to be and to be individual features of Personal Reality: