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Voluntarism - What does it mean?

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voluntarism

English

Noun

(wikipedia voluntarism) (-)
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * voluntarist * voluntaristic

    See also

    * voluntaryism English words suffixed with -ism

    Not English

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