Lawrence Ofunja Kangei, holds Diploma in Religious Studies (Dip/RS), Consolata Institute of Philosophy, Kenya, Bachelor of Philosophy (B-PHL), Pontifical University Urbaniana, Rome, Master of Arts in Philosophy (MA-PHL), PhD in Philosophy (PhD-PHL), currently pursuing Bachelor of Laws (LLB) all at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. His realm of specialization is Ethics or Moral Philosophy with a keen interest in Political Philosophy or Political Theory and Jurisprudence. Furthermore, he has competences in Epistemology, African Philosophy, Metaphysics and Logic as spheres of holistic continuum. Underpinned as well as silhouetted by the erstwhile, he is an Autonomous Researcher and Consultant in both Philosophy (Ethics/Moral cum Political) and Law (Jurisprudence).
He is the Founder & CEO - Philosophy Quest Hub. Holistic Ethics in Governance & Leadership Realms for Renaissance. The epicentral aspirational nature and gamut for the foregoing is to ensure a holistic gauntlet for humanity's existential amelioration by enquiring on the foremost issues: who ought to rule; how ought the society be organized; and how ought the resources be distributed in the society? A succinct distinction between power and authority is not only germane but urgent. Thu, the State when unbalanced with sovereignty could be used as a tool of harnessing and perpetuating violence for it has the aptitude to monopolize and manipulate its citizens’ whose limits of participation in the course of governance is indispensable. Power here implies the outright will’s aptitude to bring into being as well as impose transmogrification on that which is. The attainment of such could be feasibly only when the public is appropriately conscientized of its temporal rights, privileges along with onuses since it has the capability to outline both its political and legal destiny through the transition of power and legitimacy.