van der Burg Simone
IQ Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, PO Box 9101, Route 114, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Nanoethics. 2016;10(3):233-244. doi: 10.1007/s11569-016-0273-2. Epub 2016 Aug 17.
Making better choices about future technologies that are being researched or developed is an important motivator behind lay ethics interventions. However, in practice, they do not always succeed to serve that goal. Especially authors who have noted that lay ethicists sometimes take recourse to well-known themes which stem from old, even 'archetypical' stories, have been criticized for making too little room for agency and decision-making in their approach. This paper aims to contribute to a reflection on how lay ethics can acquire more practical relevance. It will use resources in narrative ethics to suggest that in order to be relevant for action, facilitators of lay ethics interventions need to invite participants to engage in a narrative quest. As part of a quest, lay ethicists should be asked to (1) reflect on a specific question or choice, (2) use diverse (imaginative) input which is informative about the heterogeneity of viewpoints that are defended in society and (3) argue for their standpoints.
对正在研究或开发的未来技术做出更好的选择是外行伦理干预背后的一个重要动机。然而，在实践中，它们并不总是能成功实现这一目标。特别是那些指出外行伦理学家有时会诉诸源于古老甚至“原型”故事的著名主题的作者，因在其方法中为能动性和决策留出的空间太少而受到批评。本文旨在促进对外行伦理如何获得更多实际相关性的思考。它将利用叙事伦理中的资源，表明为了与行动相关，外行伦理干预的促进者需要邀请参与者参与叙事探索。作为探索的一部分，应该要求外行伦理学家：（1）思考一个具体问题或选择；（2）使用多样的（富有想象力的）输入，这些输入能提供关于社会中所捍卫的观点异质性的信息；（3）为他们的立场进行论证。
