voluntarism

English

Etymology

voluntary +‎ -ism

Noun

Wikipedia voluntarism (uncountable)

1. (US) a reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism
2. (philosophy) a doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect
3. (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