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A Wild West of the Mind (Hardcover)
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A Wild West of the Mind (Hardcover)
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Can unexpressed thoughts be morally wrong? Are people subject to
moral condemnation not only for their malicious, biased, and cruel
actions, but also for their private malice, biased beliefs, and
ugly fantasies? Although many would answer "yes," George Sher
argues in A Wild West of the Mind that none of the main approaches
to morality support this view and that to accept it would be to
relinquish an essential aspect of our mental freedom. To preserve
that freedom, we must allow our beliefs to follow the evidence
wherever it leads and must give our private feelings, attitudes,
and fantasies free rein. As so understood, the realm of the purely
mental is a morality-free zone, one within which no thoughts or
attitudes are either forbidden or required. Even when our beliefs
are irrational or repugnant and our desires reflect badly on our
character, it is never morally wrong for us to have them. A Wild
West of the Mind advances a provocative thesis of normative ethics
and offers a powerful defense of freedom of mind. Broad in scope
and tightly argued, the book will have much to offer philosophers
working in ethics, free will, and epistemology.
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