Paulo Freire, a historical subject committed to his time, built his thought not only as a verbal or discursive commitment to the future, but also from his daily existence. An intellectual committed to a concrete reality, but not to comply with it, but to stress it from the demand of a vision of the future.Paulo Freire, un sujeto histórico comprometido con su época, construyó su pensamiento no solamente como un compromiso verbal o discursivo con el futuro, sino también desde su existir cotidiano. Un intelectual comprometido con una realidad concreta, pero no para conformarse con ella, sino para tensionarla desde la exigencia de una visión de futuro