This construction of knowledge seeks to list the dimensions of ethics, understanding the human values that permeate the entire discussion, such as freedom, autonomy and otherness, among others. This construction encompasses theoretical references adopted by Social Work, which allows us to understand the relationship between ethics and Social Work in its historical process.

Present in mediations, ethics is in the field of professions and thus chooses values and principles that guide its workers. The ethical principles adopted by the Social Service are set out in the 1993 Code of Ethics and Resolutions; the values implicit in them outline the social direction for the realisation of the professional ethical-political project.

It is understood that this work does not exhaust the object researched, but the elements present here show a path towards facing the challenges and possibilities for the materialisation of these values that go beyond the profession, because by choosing freedom as a central ethical value, the search for democracy and citizenship, and aiming for the political emancipation of man, the profession advances into another sphere, that of totality. .