Phaedo

I disagreed with Socrates in his dialogue when he said, " Therefore, if we had this knowledge, we knew before birth and immediately after not only the equal, but the Greater and the Smaller and all such things, for our present argument is no more about the Equal than about the Beautiful itself, the Good itself, the just, the Pious and, as I say, about all those things to which we can attache the word "itself' both when we are putting questions and answering them." A large part of what we think is beautiful, or good or bad, comes from the culture we are raised in. What is physically beautiful, morally acceptible differs from place to place. We are not all born with a standard of beauty or right and wrong.