Plato and the Academy

The headship of the academy passed to a philosopher named archesilaus. Any doctrine loving platonists still frequenting the academy would have felt like meat lovers whose favorite restaurant is suddenly taken over by militant vegetarians. It was an end to the steady diet of arguments claiming to establish metaphysical and ethical truths. The next scholarc, or head of the academy, was a man named polemo who shifted things to the turrain of ethics but continued to set forth what he took to be platonic doctrine. These successors to plato would probably be broadly happy with the way plato is usually taught in universities these days.