Socrates didn't write anything. Most of our knowledge of him comes from Plato writings. The most accurate of Plato's writings on Socrates is the The Apology. It tells of Socrates's defense at his trial in 399 BC. He was convicted of atheism, treason and corruption of the young. He was sentenced to death by a jury. He could of escaped from prison, but he chose not to. He valued the law so much, that he chose to fulfill his sentence of death

Socrates didn't write anything because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing. Socrates' method of philosophical inquiry was questioning people on the situations they were in and working them through questions into a contradiction. Then proving to them that their original idea was wrong. This method of questioning was know as elenchus , which kind of means "cross-examination".

He believed if you had a problem and thought about it long enough, you can find the answer. Although Socrates was not a scientist, his way of questioning to find out answers laid a foundation for the way that science works today.

Some of Socrates's most famous philosophical ideas are "the necessity of doing what one thinks is right even in the face of universal opposition, and the need to pursue knowledge even when opposed."