William James advocates strenuousness as the key to the moral life yet his hunger for extreme experiences sometimes leads him to risk sacrificing morality in their pursuit. This paradox is best represented by James’s fascination with soldiers and warfare as exemplars of the strenuous life. This essay examines the tension between strenuousness and morality in James’s ethical thought through the lens of his celebration of wildness. Wildness, I argue, names the hungry craving for meaning, lust for intense, novel, and risky experiences, and contempt for the banality of American modernity. In response to Sarin Marchetti and Trygve Throntveit’s recent interpretations of James’s moral thought, I argue that a fuller account of a radical empiricist approach to ethics – its originality, its contributions, its shortcomings – demands a deeper engagement with James’s craving for wildness and its implications for grasping the aesthetic-affective registers of his social criticism and political thought.

威廉·詹姆斯（William James）主张艰苦奋斗是道德生活的关键，但他对极端体验的渴望有时会导致他冒险在追求中牺牲道德。这个悖论最能体现在詹姆斯对士兵和战争的迷恋上，作为艰苦生活的典范。这篇文章通过他对野性的庆祝，考察了詹姆斯伦理思想中艰苦与道德之间的张力。我认为，野性是对意义的渴望，对激烈、新颖和冒险体验的渴望，以及对美国现代性平庸的蔑视。为了回应 Sarin Marchetti 和 Trygve Throntveit 最近对詹姆斯道德思想的解释，我认为更全面地描述了激进的经验主义伦理学方法——它的独创性，它的贡献，