Narratives hold open the future.

摘要: Principles are static; narratives move. They show us how people change; they depict character development and moral growth (or decline). do this by pulling inside lived time, where we empathize with a character's dilemmas about, responsibility for, his or her future. This feature of fits well ethics, for ethics begins practical questions about what to be even whether be). Such require that one view the future as something has some freedom shape. Narrative principle-based support each other, both necessary, but in essay I will focus on side consider narrative dynamism enlivens static bioethical principle, opening up new possibilities action.