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THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.activity. To these answerespectively the virtuesof prudence, of courage, and of temperance, whilejustice comes in afterwards as a right ordering ofthe three, or as prudence applied to practice. Theseat of all irregular desires, of all evil, in fact, isto Plato in this union of the soul with matter.this matter is primordial, evil in its origin doesnot indeed spring from God, but it is beyond hispower: it springs from that state of things whichexisted before the action of God on chaos :62 itmust stand over against the good : and of necessityencompasses this mortal nature and the placeof its habitation : and to man it lies not in theperverted * use of free-will, but in his original com-position, wherein his body is its seat. But in thistriple composition of man Plato does not seem tohave clearly apprehended a human personality atall : he has not even attempted to explain63 inwhat the unity of the soul consists besides theseits three portions, two of which, being tied to thebody, drop off at death.It is in the practice of Plato as a teacher thatwe can most fitly consider the conception whichthe Greek philosophers in general had concerningthe method of studying */ o and imparting c philosophv J62 Theatetut, p. 176. 2o?/c. 'AAA' our' d-n^Aec-flai rd Ka/cd Swarfo, cS 0eJ5a>pe' inrsvavTiov yap rt TO? a7a0a? dei elz/cu avayKfi* OVT eV 0eo?s aura 2/cai roi'Se T^763 See Zeller, vol. ii. part 1, pp. 541-4, who points out a string of difficultieson the subject of personality, free-will, as maintained by Plato,and his doctrine that no one is willingly wicked.