I Believe There Really Are Such Beings

In a way, it's not that we are what we eat, but we are we think. And i believe there really are such beings. He takes it back to a debate of the middle ages between nominalism and realism. The realists argued that ideas were reality. They called them universals. But steiner says they are being embodied in the visible perception of things. This goes back to plato and his ideas. Steiner works it out in his philosophy of spiritual activity in this way.