Summary of Ethical Intelligence

The Need for “Ethical Intelligence”

Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book Emotional Intelligence suggested that reading people’s emotions and responding appropriately is essential to work and daily life. But what if your emotional intelligence tells you one thing is true about a friend but your friend tells you something different? How should you respond? All the emotional sensitivity and acuity in the world cannot guide you, because this is essentially an ethical question: What is the right thing to do? To answer such questions you must develop your ethical intelligence.