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Today's Word "agon"

A struggle or contest on

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agon \AH-gahn; ah-GOHN\ (noun) - A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.

"Conflicts about moral claims are part of what it means to be human, and a political ideal stripped of sentimentality and the utopian temptation is one committed to the notion that political life is a permanent agon between clashing, even incompatible goods." -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, 'Real Politics'

 

Agon comes from Greek agon , "a struggle or contest." It is related to agony .


 

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