This article was developped from the Seminar "30 Years of Congresso da Virada", which was held in São Paulo in 2009. Analyzing the challenges of the ethical-political project at the current moment, it points out the main determinations of contemporary sociability in order to highlight the dominant ethos in the post-modern neoliberalism setting and the aspects that both favor neoconservatism and hamper the viability of the values and assumptions from the Code of Professional Ethics.
Ethics; Ethos; Ethical-political project; Neoconservatism; Post-modern neoliberalism