What is "voluntarist"

Usage examples of "voluntarist".

The line then runs from Nietzsche to Bergson, the French voluntarist, Heidegger and Sartre, and to Whitehead, the great metaphysician of our centuryall of this came from Schelling.

The Judeo-Christian concept of imposed laws of nature, which burst into prominence in seventeenth-century scientific thought, can be traced to the latter part of the thirteenth century, when a new tradition of Christian theology arose, called the theory of voluntarist natural law.

Puritan theology, for example, drew a distinction between the ordinary and extraordinary Providences of God that is strongly reminiscent of the voluntarist theories of Ockham.

Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke, as well as Boyle, Newton, and other members of the Royal Society, proceeded to adapt the voluntarist theory of moral law to a comparable view of physical laws operating in nature.

Many of these later philosophers and scientists were well aware of the writings of the medieval voluntarist theologians.

Proponents of the new philosophy were presented with a dilemma: to support the experimental methodology of science, many early natural philosophers affirmed the voluntarist view of natural laws being imposed on nature from without.

The continental conceptions of this spiritual construction revived both the historical and the voluntarist traditions of the nation and added to the conception of historical development a transcendental synthesis in national sovereignty.

Proponents of the new philosophy were presented with a dilemma: to support the experimental methodology of science, many early natural philosophers affirmed the voluntarist view of natural laws being imposed on nature from without.