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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 vol·un·ta·rism /ˈvɑləntəˌrɪzəm/
 任意主義,唯意志論

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Vol·un·ta·rism n.
 1. Philosophy 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.
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