Ethics and profession: contemporary educator's challenges

The article argues the question of the professional ethics in the present time. It tries to demonstrate how the scientific rationality, technologies and the relation with the contemporary work challenge the educator. It is considered, here, the problem of the ethical formation and the world-wide proposal of a new politics of life. It also distinguishes the concept of "ethics", constituted of two aspects: a joint of rules instituted by the family, by the school, by religion, by the work and the real behavior of the individuals in relation to those rules.