 Maritain also favoured a number of liberal ideals, and the list of rights that he recognises extends significantly beyond that found in many liberal theories, and includes the rights of workers as well as those of the human and the civic person. He was, in particular, a defender of freedom of conscience—and not simply freedom of religion or freedom of worship—which he saw as fundamental to the full development of human personality and to the common good of society (Sweet 2006, Coulter 2012).