Category:Voluntarism

Vol"un*ta*rism, n.

Defn: 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.