Keep thoughts, words, and actions morally clean
Cultivate integrity across inward motives, speech, conduct, sexuality, and media consumption.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
World Morals — a shared human inquiry
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.
- Moral teachings
- 610
- Religious systems
- 52
- Nonreligious systems
- 41
- Source evidence rows
- 10620
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.
610 teachings found · Edition XXI
Learn to love as God loves
Cultivate unconditional, wise, and responsible love that extends beyond preference or personal reward.
Leave a portion of produce for the poor
Build direct access for people in need into systems of property, agriculture, and economic production.
Let love govern disagreement
Speak honestly, listen carefully, and preserve respect and care during controversy.
Let one's life speak
Make conduct a visible testimony to truth, peace, equality, simplicity, community, and stewardship.
Listen before judging
Hear relevant evidence and perspectives before reaching a conclusion.
Listen honestly across differences
Seek understanding before judgment and identify both real disagreement and genuine common ground.
Listen to children in matters affecting them
Give children an age-appropriate opportunity to express views and take those views seriously.
Live peacefully in attentive respect
Treat every person with compassionate attention and reject violence as a normal means of solving conflict.
Live simply
Reduce needless consumption, status display, and complexity that burden people or creation.
Live simply as a witness against materialism
Resist consumerism and status-seeking through disciplined simplicity, generosity, and service.
Live simply to make room for others
Reduce material excess so time, attention, and resources remain available for God, community, and service.
Live the truth one understands
Translate spiritual knowledge into daily thoughts, words, decisions, relationships, and action.
Love and protect the stranger
Treat immigrants, resident strangers, and socially displaced persons with dignity, fairness, and active concern.
Love enemies or overcome hostility with good
Refuse hatred and seek humane responses toward opponents.
Love or care for one's neighbor
Seek the well-being of people in one's moral community.
Maintain confidentiality after death
Continue protecting confidential patient information even after the patient has died.
Maintain continuing competence
Continue learning as knowledge, standards, risks, and technologies change.
Maintain hope during adversity
Respond to severe difficulty with perseverance, mutual support, and confidence that constructive action remains possible.
Maintain human oversight of high-impact systems
Ensure responsible humans can review, override, repair, or stop systems that risk serious harm.
Maintain humanitarian neutrality
Do not take sides in hostilities or partisan controversies when neutrality is necessary to reach and protect people.
Maintain political and military neutrality
Do not permit partisan, national, ethnic, or military allegiance to override peace, impartiality, and religious conscience.
Maintain purity of mind, body, and surroundings
Cultivate cleanliness externally and replace destructive mental habits with constructive ones.
Make automated decisions accountable
Ensure consequential systems are reviewable and subject to responsibility.