Education
A professor and a former director of the Graduate Institute of Philosophy of National Central University, he received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Philisophy in philosophy in The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of the renowned contemporary New Confucianist professors Tang Chun-I and Mou Tsung-sanitary He received his Doctor of Philosophy.
Career
With the Graduate Institute of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, United States of America.
Lee has taught at various universities, including Tunghai University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and National Central University. Since 1998 he has been the chief investigator of a research group of the ELSI problem of human genome project In order to promote studies and research in bioethics in Taiwan, he organized a number of international conferences on bioethics.
Lee is the founding member, board member, and president (2006-2008) of the Taiwan Bioethics Association.
He has served as the vice president of the Chinese Professional Association of Bioethics and as vice president of the Asian Bioethics Association. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the National Central University Journal of Humanities.