What does voluntarism mean?
Voluntarism means (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism..
Voluntarism
/ˈvɒ.lən.t(ə.)ɹɪ.zəm/ · noun
Meaning
(US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism..
Definitions by Sense
- (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.
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- voluntarisms
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