Moral thinking today finds itself stranded between the particular
and the universal. Alasdair MacIntyre's work on narrative,
discussed here along with that of Stanley Hauerwas and H. T.
Engelhardt, aims to undo the perceived damage done by the
Enlightenment by returning to narrative and abandoning the illusion
of a disembodied reason that claims to be able to give a coherent
explanation for everything. It is precisely this - a theory that
holds good for all cases - that John Rawls proposed, drawing on the
heritage of Emmanuel Kant. Who is right? Must universality be
abandoned? Must we only think about morality in terms that are
relative, bound by space and time? Alexander Lucie-Smith attempts
to answer these questions by examining the nature of narrative
itself as well as the particular narratives of Rawls and St
Augustine. Bound and rooted as they are in history and personal
experience, narratives nevertheless strain at the limits imposed on
them. It is Lucie-Smith's contention that each narrative that
points to a lived morality exists against the background of an
infinite horizon, and thus it is that the particular and the rooted
can also make us aware of the universal and unchanging.
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