Catholic Word of the Day: VOLUNTARISM, 04-22-09

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VOLUNTARISM

The doctrine of the primacy of the will. This takes on a variety of forms: 1. that in God his will takes precedence over his intellect, with the result that truth and goodness are what they are because God wants them that way (Duns Scotus); 2. that one's will, including one's freedom, is what makes that person distinctively human (St. Augustine); 3. that the world is the representation of the will, a blind and aimless cosmic power (Schopenhauer); 4. that each person's free will determines for the individual what is morally good or bad (Kant); 5. that what mainly constitutes a human person is his or her lifetime exercise of free will (Existentialism). (Etym. Latin voluntarius, at one's pleasure, intentional, freely desired.)

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The battle of man's will vs. God's will continues.

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This is an entirely new word to me today. Anyone else?

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I found it in the Obamicon (the lexicon of Omaba the First): Voluntarism: the act of forced volunteering, something you shall compel the people to do in order to discourage them from spontaneously doing the same for their church. Good deeds come from gubermint programs, not people.

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That’s Obortion Obama’s opinion. Doesn’t match with the Catholic definition at all.

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Doesn’t match ALL the definitions, I should have said. A little bit confusing since it seems to pit man’s will against God’s will.

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Actually, it's a thing I think about a lot; and one of the differences between us and our Islamic brethren. We cannot seriously entertain the idea that God could will us to do evil. They think they can entertain it.

Also, I think they get Kant wrong. I blitzed his moral teaching in college, and he's not as subjective as they make him out to be.