Socrates, who was not interested in anything other than philosophy and was known to be extremely humble, had a great influence on Greek youth in his age. The rulers of the period, who were disturbed by this, accused Socrates of not believing in the gods, corrupting the morals of the youth and poisoning them. B.C. In 399, at the age of seventy, Socrates, who was tried in the case opened on these charges, was sentenced to death.
The life and ideas of Socrates, who did not leave a written work, could be transferred to the next generations by the thinkers and students of his time. The Defense of Socrates, written by Plato, is one of them. In Plato's Defense of Socrates, he gives Socrates the right to defend his ideas in a court he has constructed.
The Defense of Socrates is a work that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime, without forgetting that those who are unjustly judged will appear in every age...
