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voluntarism

the philosophy that the activities of organizations should be governed by their own codes of conduct rather than by the law. In INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS it refers to the widespread belief amongst both TRADE UNIONS and employers that the form and outcome of COLLECTIVE BARGAINING should be determined by themselves and not be subject to legal regulation. See LABOUR LAW.

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This is where Stirner's primacy of the 'I' intersects with Nietzsche's voluntaristic 'will to power' over oneself.

'A Feminist Disciple of Nietzsche': The Case of Dora Marsden's Unstable Anarchism

A comparison of the shift towards decentralised bargaining in manufacturing provides a useful illustration of how the voluntaristic framework in Denmark involved a different set of processes and outcomes from the more legalistic model approach in Australia.

Decentralised Bargaining in Denmark and Australia: Voluntarism versus Legal Regulation

Voluntaristic emphasis upon the freedom of the will brings me to a second historical tendency decisive for the eclipse of substantive theories of practical reason: the ossification of neoscholastic natural law theory.

Aquinas, Kant, and the eclipse of practical reason

The main lesson, to repeat, is to avoid voluntaristic errors by coming to better understand what can, and what cannot, be changed by purposeful action.

Interview with Martin Fransman

Thus, the feeling of Goffman's second ethnography was very different from his first, with its clear allegiance to Parsons' voluntaristic theory of action.

The evolution of the concept of social action: Parsons and Goffman

Because the theory presented is not "coercive" in terms of Carneiro's dichotomy, it is necessarily "voluntaristic." That is the only other possibility.

Is political evolution over? An anthropological analysis of the twentieth century

As Siedentop argues, this voluntaristic shift, together with the movements toward equality, popular sovereignty, natural rights, and parliamentary representation, formed exactly the foundation modern liberalism needed to get started.

The individual and the liberal state

We may juxtapose these involuntary forms of poverty with the voluntaristic poverty of the ascetic, who renounces worldly luxuries of his own free will.

Porridge, piety and patience: young Qur'anic students' experiences of poverty in Kano, Nigeria

Nesbit would deny it, as did Cornel West in his classic The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (1989), in which he stressed Dewey's reconciliation of the "voluntaristic, amelioristic, and activistic" Emersonian tradition with the historical consciousness cultivated in nineteenth-century Europe.

Art and experience: christopher s. wood on molly nesbit's the pragmatism in the history of art

Since this revitalization is to be carried out by the members of the lifeworld, the decolonization is only possible through their communicative action, moral discourse, and voluntaristic movement to promote their shared values and visions.

The U.S. immigration crisis and a call for the church's lifeworld politics: why should hauerwas collaborate with habermas on the U.S. immigration crisis?

This new community is based on voluntaristic Christian moral principles, not on greed or selfishness.

Christian marriage, money scams, and Melanesian social imaginaries

Both its fabled 'positivity' and its quickness to blame arise from a comfortingly voluntaristic conception of politics, in which Scotland's problems can be attributed to malign foreign institutions that are wilfully frustrating the natural genius of its people.

Independence after the crash: the financial crisis has transformed the debate over Scottish independence--to the disadvantage of the SNP