Ethical Legal

About the Book

This book is about legality in its relation with morality. It is to explore dialectical dynamics in-between the two subject matters, i.e., legality and morality. It is because, in reality, the ethical foundation of legality is getting weaker and more ineffectual. That is why the authority of the law is getting weaker and less effective, as time goes on. That is consequently why there are more violence and crimes in American society, if not in the entire global community. This book is by no means to teach you the law. Legality has its own rich history and tradition, formal and informal conventions, and profound and diverse theories and doctrines. This book is simply geared to highlight the ethical dimension in the nature and function of the law. In brief, it is to “ethicalize” the law in its legislation, interpretation, and execution. Instead of discussing in detailed theories and doctrines of the law being entertained by its complexities and diversities, this book is to investigate philosophically major themes of the law, mainly in order to reveal their inherent connections with ethics and ultimately to emphasize the crucial necessity of ethics in legality. Unless we radically increase the ethical implication in legality, the humanity may not be able to entertain the twenty-second century.

About the Author

"EL" Lee has acquired an extensive higher education in several institutions for twelve years: U.C. Berkeley for the BA/BS, double major in Philosophy and Psychology; School of Theology at Claremont for the MA in Religion; Princeton Theological Seminary for the Master in Divinity; Princeton Theological Seminary for the Master in Theology; Emory University, Candler School of Theology for the Residency in the Doctor of Ministry Program; San Jose State University for the Multiple Teaching Credential Program in the School of Education. "EL" is a former ordained pastor who has been in parish ministry for nearly two decades. Besides his service for the church, his passion has been teaching and researching in ethics and ethical leadership. His experience also in public education has led him to devote his life for ethical education, especially for the future generations. He has three teenage children from his former marriage. He currently resides at the Silicon Valley in Northern California, after a year-long extensive travel around the globe.