This article examines two arguments that a worship-worthy agent cannot command worship. The first argument is based on the idea that any agent who commands worship is egotistical, and hence not worship-worthy. The second argument is based on Campbell Brown and Yujin Nagasawa's (2005) idea that people cannot comply with the command to worship because if people are offering genuine worship, they cannot be motivated by a command to do so. One might then argue that a worship-worthy agent would have no reason to issue a command to worship. I argue that both these arguments fail.

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一个值得敬拜的代理人可以命令其他人敬拜它吗？

本文探讨了值得敬拜的代理人不能命令敬拜的两个论点。第一个论点是基于这样一种观点，即任何命令崇拜的代理人都是自负的，因此不值得崇拜。第二个论点是基于 Campbell Brown 和 Yujin Nagasawa (2005) 的观点，即人们不能遵守敬拜的命令，因为如果人们提供真正的敬拜，他们就不会受到命令的激励而这样做。然后有人可能会争辩说，一个值得敬拜的代理人没有理由发出敬拜的命令。我认为这两个论点都失败了。