The past, present and future of ethical rationalism / Patrick Capps and Shaun D. Pattinson -- How to become a successful Hegelian / Stuart Toddington -- Identifying and justifying moral norms : necessary basics / Kenneth R Westphal -- Hope, agency, and aesthetic sensibility : a response to Beyleveld's account of Kantian hope / Dascha During and Marcus Duwell -- Justification in morality and the law / Michael Boylan -- Advance refusals and the personal identity objection / Shaun D Pattinson -- Law as a moral judgment, the domain of jurisprudence, and technological management / Roger Brownsword -- Beyond reason : the legal importance of emotions / Thom Brooks and Diana Sankey -- Public goods in the ethical reconsideration of research innovation / Benjamin Capps -- Privacy, politeness, and the boundary between theory and practice in ethical rationalism / David Townend -- Fidelity to international law : on international courts and politics / Henrik Palmer Olsen -- Legal idealism and global law / Patrick Capps -- What is Gewirth and what is Beyleveld? a retrospect with comments on the contributions / Deryck Beyleveld.