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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI

Explore moral teachings

An interactive atlas of moral teachings across the world's religious and secular traditions — from ancient scriptures to modern ethics.

Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions

A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.

Many traditions. One invitation to understand.

Find a teaching, follow its source anchors, and explore common ground without erasing differences. Every number describes only the systems represented in this edition.

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610 teachings found · Edition XXI

M210 · Medical and Research Ethics

Disclose clinically significant errors

Communicate serious errors honestly and take steps to reduce harm and recurrence.

10 / 93 systems mapped · 10.8%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M299 · Responsible Business Conduct

Disclose material business impacts

Communicate reliable information about significant governance, social, labor, and environmental impacts.

13 / 93 systems mapped · 14.0%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M193 · Professional and Computing Ethics

Disclose serious hazards

Promptly report conditions that threaten public safety, health, rights, or the environment.

24 / 93 systems mapped · 25.8%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M507 · Engineering and Technology Professional Ethics

Disclose technical dangers promptly

Communicate credible risks, defects, limitations, and hazards to affected people and responsible authorities.

2 / 93 systems mapped · 2.2%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M269 · AI Governance and Information Integrity

Disclose when people are interacting with AI

Make users reasonably aware when decisions, communications, or content are generated or materially shaped by AI.

10 / 93 systems mapped · 10.8%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M328 · Journalism and Public Information Ethics

Distinguish news from advertising and advocacy

Label sponsored, promotional, opinion, and advocacy content so audiences are not deceived.

1 / 93 systems mapped · 1.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M409 · Climate Ethics and Planetary Responsibility

Distribute climate burdens and benefits justly

Allocate mitigation, adaptation, costs, and opportunities with regard for responsibility, capacity, vulnerability, and equality.

7 / 93 systems mapped · 7.5%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M240 · Religious Community and Leadership Ethics

Do good to all people

Extend benevolent action beyond one's own group.

14 / 93 systems mapped · 15.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M114 · Family, Sexuality and Relationships

Do not abandon vulnerable dependents

Continue reasonable care toward those reliant upon you.

37 / 93 systems mapped · 39.8%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M065 · Justice, Law and Governance

Do not abuse authority

Do not use institutional power for cruelty or self-aggrandizement.

34 / 93 systems mapped · 36.6%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M002 · Truth, Speech and Knowledge

Do not bear false witness

Do not give false testimony, fabricate accusations, or knowingly misrepresent another person.

41 / 93 systems mapped · 44.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M110 · Family, Sexuality and Relationships

Do not betray trust

Avoid exploiting intimacy, confidence, or dependency.

32 / 93 systems mapped · 34.4%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M064 · Justice, Law and Governance

Do not bribe or corrupt justice

Reject payments or favors that distort public duty.

37 / 93 systems mapped · 39.8%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M043 · Property, Work and Economic Justice

Do not cheat

Reject dishonest advantage in education, games, business, or public life.

40 / 93 systems mapped · 43.0%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M004 · Truth, Speech and Knowledge

Do not commit perjury

Do not make knowingly false statements under oath or solemn affirmation.

40 / 93 systems mapped · 43.0%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M175 · Animals, Environment, Health and Technology

Do not create malicious software

Do not build tools designed to steal, sabotage, extort, or injure.

44 / 93 systems mapped · 47.3%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M443 · Soto Zen Precept Ethics

Do not criticize others destructively

Avoid speech that attacks others' character without necessity, fairness, or constructive purpose.

1 / 93 systems mapped · 1.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M014 · Truth, Speech and Knowledge

Do not deceive through omission

Do not conceal material facts when silence is intended to mislead.

40 / 93 systems mapped · 43.0%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M042 · Property, Work and Economic Justice

Do not defraud

Do not obtain benefit through deception or dishonest manipulation.

34 / 93 systems mapped · 36.6%
Workbook confidence: Developing

Provenance: Universal Moral Code — Statistical Atlas, Edition XXI. Names, definitions and source anchors are preserved verbatim. This atlas describes its corpus, not all beliefs or practices worldwide.