An example of a perfect entity in Phaedo is Tallness. Socrates uses this idea of perfect entities to explain the reality of the world. He argues that something that is taller than something else is taller by virtue that it can’t be both taller and shorter than the other object. It simply is taller and therefore is in essence, Tallness. Another example is Beautiful. Socrates argues that something is beautiful simply because it is, not because it has pretty colors or is shaped in a certain manner. In addition, he mentions that if something is beautiful it shares or has a subjective relationship with Beautiful. The question of whether these entities are better than bodies is that these entities are, in his words, universal and are shared by all