Voluntarism

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Jan 03 2006 at 3:13:04

Vol"un*ta*rism (?), n.

Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind and irrational will, Fichte holding that the intelligent activity of the ego is the fundamental fact of reality.

 

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