In this compilation, selected topics, works and authors are dealt with that are tangential to philosophical and/or ethical theory and fields of action. There are discussions of Aristotle ("Nicomachean Ethics"), David Hume ("An Inquiry into the Principles of Morality"), John Stuart Mill ("Utilitarianism), moral contractualism (Thomas Hobbes, David Gauthier, Peter Stemmer), Richard Dawkins ("The Selfish Gene"), Ernst Mayr ("Cause and Effect in Biology"), Paul Ekman ("Are Forms of Emotional Expression Universal?"), René Descartes ("Meditations on the Foundations of Philosophy"), and Buddhism.