Certainty and eternity as philosophical and moral goals are narratives with moral precepts

It was G. W. F. Hegel’s willingness in his Phenomenology of the Spirit (1977) to abandon certainty and eternity as philosophical and moral goals/ideals that 

inspired Rorty to appreciate the irreducible temporality of everything as well as a contingent narrative readable without a moral precept (a general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought) existing behind the narrative of moral goals/ideals