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)
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or intrinsic:
“Have a care over my people. You have my people—do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them—see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is ... the labour of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)