ABSTRACT
This article deals with the limits and potentialities of republican and democratic institutions with regard to the relations between Epistemology, Politics, and Education/Physical Education. It emphasizes the need to reaffirm, before the new generations, the founding values and the necessity of maintaining a critical relationship with its modes of objectification. It concludes with a commitment to an Education/Physical Education that promotes the development of a democratic culture capable of resisting authoritarian temptations, on the right and the left, to “cut corners”, and a scientific culture that serves as a critical shield against charlatanism, without mystifying science.
Keywords:
Democratic republic; Democratic culture; Scientific culture; Negationism