Associations to the word «Voluntarism»

Wiktionary

VOLUNTARISM, noun. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
VOLUNTARISM, noun. (philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
VOLUNTARISM, noun. (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.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke