Does the Center Hold? An Introduction to Western Philosophy

"I've met students whose parents pressured them to major in business or biology or to enroll in pre-law courses, but I can't remember ever meeting students whose parents insisted that they become philosophy majors. Certainly, nobody ever went into this field motivated by greed, unless he or she was laboring under a serious misapprehension. Plato may have gone into philosophy impelled by a frustrated lust for power, but few make that mistake anymore"--