In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
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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