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The Fisk workshops emphasized voluntarist remedies, such as black church programs and promoting home ownership among working-class blacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

You cannot be an occasionalist without being a voluntarist, and every voluntarist has taken at least the first step on the road to occasionalism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In fact, for a voluntarist like Schopenhauer, a theory so sanely and cautiously empirical and rational as that of Darwin left out of account the inward force, the essential motive, of evolution.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

There is, on the other hand, no perception and no idea which is not, or better, ought not to be for the voluntarist a means, an aim, a tool, an end, an ideal.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

And it is also quite logical that Schopenhauer, who deduced pessimism from the voluntarist doctrine or doctrine of universal personalization, should have deduced from both of these that the foundation of morals is compassion.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)