Out-Narrating Competing Worldviews

"By taking us to the level of ground-motive or mythos, RO takes us to the site of incommensurability, where the rules of the game differ from mythos to mythos. Thus, the strategy cannot be one of demonstration but rather one of narration – or, more specifically, out-narration. If one is going to oppose the mythos of nihilism and original violence, ‘One’s only resort at this juncture, other than mystical despair, is to return to the demonstration that nihilism, as an ontology, is also no more than a mythos. To counter it, one cannot resuscitate liberal humanism, but one can try to put forward an alternative mythos, equally unfounded, but nonetheless embodying an ‘ontology of peace' ' (TST, 279). "

James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, P. 181