Plato: Laches/Protagoras/Meno/Euthydemus
Plato writes in a unique fashion, using the form of dialogue. It makes his works much more engaging than those of his peers within philosophy. However, I did find that towards the end it became repetitive. Perhaps that is because Plato has so many questions, but doesn't have answers, so he goes into an almost deteriorated state (okay, that was way too harsh). What I am trying to say is that the concept was understood with still many pages to go. SPOILER: I feel a necessity to share the concept. Plato tries to argue that learning is not possible, just recollection. A modern philosopher explained it with the analogy of keys. If you lost your keys but you had no idea what they looked like, felt like, or what the material of them was, how could you ever find them? When given a coin or a key, you could never conclude which is the key. In similarity with learning, how can you ever conclude to know something, if you don't know what you are trying to know? Hence, he concludes that knowledge is purely recollection from past lives. Personally, I find his conclusion a cop-out of dealing with the problem, as it doesn't explain how one first gained the knowledge, but it is definitely an interesting paradox to look at.
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