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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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Willing (as voluntarists from Rousseau to Marx to Lenin appreciate) is an individual activity, but political will only begins with an individual's voluntary commitment to and participation in a collective project.
Needless to say, like any consistent voluntarist, Fanon is critical of distorted conceptions of will that turns it into one of its several opposites--instinctive reflex, unthinking 'fervour', 'blind' impulse.
Fanon and political will
He asserts that the voluntarist account of criminal liability is purely descriptive.
Hence, the voluntarist account may allow morally suspect social norms and their regressive effects to persist in the criminal law.
Emotions and the veil of voluntarism: the loss of judgment in Canadian criminal defences
Cudworth argues like this: (3) the voluntarist has to admit that in order for his theory to be true, God--or at least His commands--have to be pretty special.
Cudworth and normative explanations
Below I present three traditions that fall within the entitlement approach: the mutual benefit tradition, the communitarian tradition, and the voluntarist tradition.
The moral rationale for international fiscal law
Voluntarists, as well as objectivists, adopt this first approach.
Custom at the heart of international law
To effectively defend the view that duress reduces the actor's culpability, we must focus on something that, curiously enough, is downplayed not only by Duff but by many voluntarists (typified by Hart and Michael Moore (52)) as well as by character theorists (such as Kahan and Nussbaum): the psychological pressure that a person characteristically feels when she is made the object of a serious threat.
Duress and culpability. (Articles)
The intellectual context for Bernard, as well as the other thinkers discussed in this book (Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, John of Damascus, Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and a substantial number of lesser-known voluntarists, intellectualists, and Renaissance and Reformation figures, as well as Luther) was clearly the concern--both pastoral and theoretical--of Christian moral theologians with sin and salvation (indeed, the editors identify six non-Aristotelian contexts for the medieval discussion).
Hoffmann, Tobias, Jorn Muller, Matthias Perkams, editors. Das Problem der Willensschwache in der mittelalterlichen Philosophie / The Problem of Weakness of Will in Medieval Philosophy [Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie medievales, Bibliotheca 8]
Voluntarists often objected to such compromising of the will's autonomy.
Thomas Aquinas and Giles of Rome on the will
It is from Aristotle after all that medieval voluntarists get their basic principle that only the voluntary, only what we control, is praised or blamed.
Virtues of the Will: The Transformation of Ethics in the Late Thirteenth Century
intervention gave a tremendous impetus to the subjective or voluntarist tendencies in the revolutionary left in Latin America.
Latin America: thirty years after Che

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