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:
| Life stance and other views |
Main intrinsic value |
|---|---|
| Moral nihilism | None |
| Humanism | human flourishing |
| Environmentalism | non-human life flourishing |
| Feminism | feminine values flourishing |
| Multiculturalism | flourishing of cultural values beyond one's own |
| 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[4] |
| Situational ethics | love |
| Buddhism | wisdom leading to Enlightenment |