In the field of medicine, ethics is generally viewed through the prism of care, more rarely through that of education. However, the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases associated with the demand for personal self-determination has led the health care system to implement patient education in order to encourage the capacity to take care of themselves. Anti-paternalistic in their theoretical foundations, these interventions can nevertheless face the pitfall of implicit moralism or of utilitarianism. We discuss the contributions of minimal ethics to consider an educational relationship relieved of moral expectations toward patients and allowing a critical education in social norms that influence attitudes toward health. We also argue the need for “maximalism” of educational strategies and means aimed at making minimal ethics effective in health empowerment. We contextualize our reflection on the educational interventions provided to adolescents living with a chronic disease.