RT Article
T1 The problem of arbitrary requirements: an abrahamic perspective
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 89
IS 3
SP 221
OP 242
A1 Aronowitz, Sara
A1 Coetsee, Marilie
A1 Saemi, Amir
A2 Coetsee, Marilie
A2 Saemi, Amir
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1760783137
AB 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.
K1 Rationality of religious requirements
K1 religious obligations
K1 Arbitrary requirements
DO 10.1007/s11153-020-09775-7