Boston University. King came to agree with the position that only personality is real. It solidified his understanding of God as a personal god. It also gave him a metaphysical basis for his belief that all human personality has dignity and worth. Paul Ricœur explicitly sought to support personalist movement by developing its theoretical foundation and expanding it with a new personalist social ethic. However, he later had significant disagreements with Mounier and criticized other personalist writers for insufficient conceptual clarity. Ricœur also disagreed with the other personalists in asserting the significance of justice as a value in its own right and gave this primary in the public sphere, whereas Mounier characterized all relationships including public and political ones in terms of love and friendship. Pope John Paul II was also influenced by the personalism advocated by Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Before his election to the Roman papacy, he wrote Person and Act (sometimes mistranslated as The Acting Person), a philosophical work suffused with personalism. Though he remained well within the traditional stream of Catholic social and individual morality, his explanation of the origins of moral norms, as expressed in his encyclicals on economics and on sexual morality, for instance, was largely drawn from a personalist perspective. His writings as Roman pontiff, of course, influenced a generation of Catholic theologians since who have taken up personalist perspectives on the theology of the family and social order. Notable personalists Randall Auxier Willem Banning Edgar S. Brightman Borden Parker Bowne Thomas O. Buford Dorothy Day Ralph Tyler Flewelling George Holmes Howison Bogumil Gacka Albert C. Knudson Edvard Kocbek Milan Komar Edwin Lewis Gabriel Marcel Peter Maurin J. M. E. McTaggart Walter George Muelder A. J. Muste Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Nhu Madame Ngô Đình Nhu Nikolay Lossky Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) Constantin Rădulescu-Motru Charles Renouvier Herman Van Rompuy Denis de Rougemont Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal Robert Spaemann William Stern F. C. S. Schiller Juan Domingo Perón Eva Duarte Gustav Teichmüller Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada Feliks Koneczny Max Stirner See also Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party (Can Lao Party), a South Vietnamese party founded and led by Ngô Đình Nhu for use as an instrument of control for the presidency of his brother Ngô Đình Diệm Charles Liebman on Jewish personalism Existential Thomism Francisco Rolão Preto Juan Manuel Burgos Christian and atheistic existentialism Speculative