... as he was considered the reigning authority on a number of different topics throughout the Middle Age and for some time beyond. In fact Aristotle's definitions of the types of good and bad government are used by almost every single theorist for the next 2000 years. Government, according to ... theorist and intellectual whose ideas have retained their worth down through time. This cross-pollination of ideas and concepts in political theory also happened within the span of one or two generations, especially in 17th and 18th century Europe. The rise in literacy in this period led to the ......

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