[vol-uhn-tuh-riz-uhm]

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Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.

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Other provisions governing the establishment of agroindustrial complexes, however, conflicted with the principle of voluntarism.

Carried into practice, Voluntarism would be as like Anarchism as two peas.

One particular school of voluntarism (Wundt) reduces the motive-force of energy to will.

The two great characteristics of the British raceinitiative and enduranceare due to this burning flame of voluntarism.

To the idol of voluntarism a veritable holocaust of victims has been offered up.

voluntarism

philosophy the theory that the will rather than the intellect is the ultimate principle of reality

a doctrine or system based on voluntary participation in a course of action

the belief that the state, government, and the law should not interfere with the procedures of collective bargaining and of trade union organization

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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

1838, in philosophy, from voluntary + -ism. As the theory or principal of using voluntary action rather than coercion (in politics, etc.), from 1924, American English (Voluntaryism in this sense is recorded from 1883).

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Online Etymology Dictionary, 2010 Douglas Harper

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