Round 9: Tossup 10

The 1277 Paris condemnations rejected the view that these things are nowhere by substance and present only by their operation. Thomas Aquinas held that these things, unusually, cannot be differentiated by matter, so they must each belong to a unique species. A mode of time named for being proper to these things is called aevum. Nine kinds of these things are placed in a (*) hierarchy in a treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius. Many medieval thinkers identified these things with the external intelligences that moved the spheres in Aristotle’s cosmology and considered them to be non-corporeal intellects. (-5[1])In the Great Chain of Being, these things are between God (10[1])and humans. A phrase mocking scholastics asks how many of these things can dance on the head of a pin. For 10 points, orders of what beings include seraphim and cherubim? ■END■ (10[1])

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