The text analyzes an approximation between intervention bioethics - theoretical approach proposed in the Cátedra Unesco de Bioética at the University of Brasília - and the pedagogy for liberation, an emancipatory theory which was developed by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire. These perspectives were selected due to the fact that they intend to act in social inequalities contexts, committed to the socio-political dimensions in the fields of bioethics and ethics, respectively. When assuming the intransigent defense of vulnerable, "oppressed" or excluded people, the ethical debate is created, denouncing inequalities and advocating a world with better quality of life and social justice. When highlighting the ethical/political character which intersects both theories, the study concludes that they point to solidarity as a mobilization and intervention tool, what enables their joint use as a theoretic-methodological tool in the fight for the respect to the human being dignity and to the universal human rights.
Bioethics; Liberty; Human rights; Teaching; Autonomy