voluntary action
Willful, deliberate act
Voluntary action is action taken by choice rather than compulsion or reflex.
In philosophy and law, the term distinguishes deliberate conduct from involuntary movements like sneezing or being pushed.
The court must determine whether the defendant's conduct was voluntary action.
The phrase also describes work done by volunteers or charitable organizations: The crisis was addressed through voluntary action rather than government mandate.
- motor cortexBrain region controlling movement
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
- conscious choiceIntentional act of selecting
- decision-makingProcess of choosing actions
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
own free will · helping hand · good deed · gesture · consent · giving back · intention · autonomy · activism · neural pathways · responsibility · accountability · choice · self-control · civic engagement · moral agency · do the right thing · planning
- freedomfreedom of choice, freedom of will, free will, expression, speech
- free willfree will, choice, volition, autonomy, initiative
- Greek ethicsarete, Nicomachean Ethics, practical wisdom, golden mean, telos
- praxeologymeans and ends, axioms, deductive logic, teleology, intentionality
- autonomyfreedom, self-rule, independence, self-determination, free will
- AristotelianismAristotle, Aristotelianism, Lyceum, syllogism, Organon
voluntary actioninvoluntary action
Movement without conscious control
compulsion · coercion · duress · constraint · submission
voluntary actionlegal obligation
Duty enforced by law
conscription · forced labor · compulsory service · court order · draft
voluntary actionreflex
Involuntary stimulus response
reflex action · automatic response · spasm · knee-jerk reaction · twitch
voluntary, action, volunteer, volunteering, volunteered, voluntarily, involuntary, involuntarily, voluntarism