Intrinsic Value (ethics) - Life Stances and Intrinsic Value

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

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