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 purposesLife stance and other views |
Main intrinsic value |
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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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