VOLUNTARISM

Etymology

Noun

voluntarism (countable and uncountable, plural voluntarisms)

(US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.

(philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.

(politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.

Source: Wiktionary

Vol"un*ta*rism, n.

Definition: Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind and irrational will, Fichte holding that the intelligent activity of the ego is the fundamental fact of reality.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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