Abstract

This article aims to examine the epistemological foundations of Bioethics and relate them to the themes of the environment and education. The revised literature shows that these themes are interdisciplinary and, therefore, can be considered as underlying and guiding an effective human formation process aimed at promoting autonomy and freedom. In a methodological context, a bibliographic research was used to develop a systematic study about the nature and principles of bioethics and its importance in the educational field, environmental education and the formation of the ecological subject, nature and society as a space for citizenship and the environment. sustainable development. In this sense, an education directed to sustainability and the ethics of humanized care in the relationship with the Other is advocated. The text is organized in three parts: initially, the historical and conceptual aspects of Bioethics are addressed; next, considerations about the environmental sustainability; and, in the final part, it discusses ethical aspects in the field of environmental education from the social and natural relations of man.