voluntarism

1. (US, countable, uncountable)A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.

2. (countable, uncountable)A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.

3. (countable, uncountable)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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