Life Stances and Intrinsic Value
This is a table which attempts to summarize the main intrinsic value of different life stances and other views, although there may be great diversity within them:
Further information: Life stance#Values and purposes| Life stance and other views |
Main intrinsic value |
|---|---|
| Moral nihilism | None |
| Humanism | human flourishing |
| Hedonism | pleasure |
| Eudaemonism | human flourishing |
| Utilitarianism | utility (classically and usually, happiness or pleasure and absence of pain) |
| Rational deontologism | virtue or duty |
| Rational eudaemonism, or tempered Deontologism | both virtue and happiness combined |
| Situational ethics | love |
| Buddhism | wisdom leading to Enlightenment |
Read more about this topic: Intrinsic Value (ethics)
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