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. [
Webster 1913 Suppl.]