collective will
Group's unified intention
Collective will is the shared intention or determination of a group acting as one.
It implies that individuals have merged their separate desires into a unified purpose: The revolution succeeded through collective will.
The phrase often appears in political and philosophical contexts, suggesting that groups can possess agency beyond mere aggregation of individual choices.
The collective will of the people demanded change.
- consensusGeneral group agreement
- solidarityUnity among allies
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- social contractAgreement exchanging freedom for order
- common goodBenefit shared by all
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- wartime moralemorale, patriotism, war effort, fighting spirit, national unity
- Rousseausocial contract, Emile, Confessions, noble savage, natural state
collective willself-interest
Concern for personal advantage
individual autonomy · self-determination · personal choice · egoism · ego
collective willdiscord
Lack of agreement
factionalism · disunity · division · fragmentation · dissent
collective willpolitical apathy
Indifference to governance
anomie · drift · fatalism · resignation · passivity
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