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voluntarism Definition

vol·un·ta·rism (väl′ən tər iz′em)

noun

    1. voluntary or willing participation in a course of action
    2. a doctrine or system based on such participation
    3. volunteerism
  2. Philos. any theory which holds that reality is ultimately of the nature of will or that the will is the primary factor in experience

voluntarism Related Forms
vol′·un·ta·rist noun vol′·un·ta·ris′·tic adjective
voluntarism Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • make: Is a significant reduction in the extent of means-testing within the state system required to make voluntarism possible?
  • affirm: One can affirm metaethical theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic; one cannot affirm normative theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic.
  • encourage: However this falls considerably short of practice among large American companies, where nine in ten encourage voluntarism.
  • promote: Yet they are prepared to go no further than promoting failed corporate voluntarism.

Adjective modifier

  • theological: How powerful is the objection from God's goodness against theological voluntarism?
  • metaethical: One can affirm metaethical theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic; one cannot affirm normative theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic.
  • normative: The view just described is a version of normative theological voluntarism.
  • failed: Yet they are prepared to go no further than promoting failed corporate voluntarism.
  • cultural: His article looks at a specific field of voluntary activity -- cultural voluntarism -- that has developed in Greece during the last thirty years.