Read apology-justice and duty and The last day of Socrates

Contemporary readers of the Apology often think of Socrates as an innocent victim, wrongly accused. Do you think that he was innocent? Others see a profound conflict between the interests of society and philosophy. Or, in other words, a conflict between traditional values and philosophical questioning. In Plato’s  Republic, Socrates goes so far as to say that justice is not possible unless either the philosophers rule or the rulers become philosophers. What do you think of the relationship between philosophy and society?