For Taiwan, the main significance of lifting martial law was in giving people the freedom to think about and find value in life for themselves. It was on that that day that the Taiwanese finally had the possibility of becoming "free people" in the philosophical sense.
解嚴對台灣最重大的意義，就是讓台灣人開始有思考和建構自我生存價值的自由；也就從那一天起，台灣人才有成為哲學意義上的「自由人」的可能。