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Voluntarism is "any metaphysical or psychological system that assigns to the will (Latin: voluntas) a more predominant role than that attributed to the intellect", [1] or equivalently "the doctrine that will is the basic factor, both in the universe and in human conduct". [2]
In law and philosophy, voluntariness is a choice being made of a person's free will, as opposed to being made as the result of coercion or duress. Philosophies such as libertarianism and voluntaryism , as well as many legal systems, hold that a contract must be voluntarily agreed to by a party in order to be binding on that party.
The problem of free will has been identified in ancient Greek philosophical literature. The notion of compatibilist free will has been attributed to both Aristotle (4th century BCE) and Epictetus (1st century CE): "it was the fact that nothing hindered us from doing or choosing something that made us have control over them".
Doxastic voluntarism is a philosophical view that people elect their own beliefs; [1] that is, that subjects have a certain amount of control over what they believe, such that a subject may choose whether or not to believe a certain thing. [1]
A more recent example of a voluntary ... Voluntariness judgments varied as a ... (a Frenchman), and a Catholic, Hubert was a perfect scapegoat. Ever-maintaining his ...
They interpreted the community of goods as a heightened form of almsgiving or as a special ethic for an ethically perfect minority. [80] Theo Sommerlad (1903) interpreted Acts 2:44 as an "institution of support for the poor" without a fixed form of organization. The NT texts show no trace of an association or common management of the land. [81]
Leibniz claims that God's choice is caused not only by its being the most reasonable, but also by God's perfect goodness, a traditional claim about God which Leibniz accepted. [2] [b] As Leibniz says in §55, God's goodness causes him to produce the best world. Hence, the best possible world, or "greatest good" as Leibniz called it in this work ...
Argument: Oral argument: Case history; Prior: United States v. Denno, 309 F. 2d 573 (2nd Cir. 1962): Holding; 1. Under the New York procedure, the trial judge must make a preliminary determination of the voluntariness of a confession and exclude it if in no circumstances could the confession be deemed voluntary.