Prácticas narrativas en Bioética: una oportunidad para la experiencia, la edificación y la deliberación

In the middle of the postmodern epistemological horizon, some authors propose a hermeneutical proposition on the notion of knowledge. Such an approximation is based particularly on the introduction of the notion of contingency in the modern comprehension of universe and nature as a mirror of knowledge. The notion of contingency implies development, temporality and narration. The holism, in opposition to atomism, defends the notion of reality in terms of interactions more than in terms of components. In that direction, the neo–pragmatism defends the proposition of images and metaphors before the formulation of affirmations as representations of reality. As a complement of the normativetheoretical affirmations that support the processes of deliberation in the contemporary bioethics, the narrative practices offer the possibility of mediation between particular cases and the paradigmatical cases, like the possibilities of opening and interpretation in the different moral deliberation meaning contexts.