Some religious requirements seem genuinely arbitrary in the sense that there seem to be no sufficient explanation of why those requirements with those contents should pertain. This paper aims to understand exactly what it might mean for a religious requirement to be genuinely arbitrary and to discern whether and how a religious practitioner could ever be rational in obeying such a requirement (even with full knowledge of its arbitrariness). We lay out four accounts of what such arbitrariness could consist in, and show how each account provides a different sort of baseline for understanding how obedience to arbitrary requirements could, in principle, be rational.

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任意要求的问题：亚伯拉罕的观点

从某种意义上说，某些宗教要求似乎确实是武断的，因为似乎没有充分解释为什么具有这些内容的要求应该适用。本文旨在准确理解宗教要求真正的任意性意味着什么，并辨别宗教从业者是否以及如何在遵守此类要求时理性（即使完全了解其任意性）。我们列出了四个关于这种任意性可能包含的内容的说明，并展示了每个说明如何提供不同类型的基线，以理解原则上对任意要求的服从如何是合理的。