The philosophical issues relating to liberation as social and political ideal are logical, epistemological, metaphysical, existential and ethical. The question, “what is liberation?” is a logical question because it raises the issue of meaning and the type of reasoning that is unique to liberation discourse. Questions relating to the antecedent and consequent conditions of liberation are metaphysical, existential and ethical because liberation assumes that there are antecedent conditions that are deemed unfavourable to human flourishing (metaphysical and existential) which are needed to be transcended by certain means (methodological, epistemological) with an outcome that is expected to promote human flourishing (ethical).