What Does "Liberal Society" Mean?

"Decolonize Explained" w/Dr. Bruce Gilley

What Does “Liberal Society” Mean? Liberal society, which is at the heart of the Western tradition, means a social organization or a set of assumptions about how society operates that assumes a couple of things. First of all: human beings are all created equal. This was actually written into our American founding documents, but I think it is a fundamental aspect of the liberal heritage. The equality of citizens. Secondly: the purposes and aims of those citizens are for them to decide themselves. So, a liberal society secondly requires a wide degree of freedoms. And there can't be an assumption about what certain people need stipulated by philosophers working in libraries or people with social justice agendas.  What justice requires, or what human niches need, is to be determined by them and them alone. And the only way to allow them to realize that is through an extensive provision of freedoms. So, liberal society is two things: the assumption of human equality, and a provision of wide freedoms so that humans can pursue their own ends.