Keep thoughts, words, and actions morally clean
Cultivate integrity across inward motives, speech, conduct, sexuality, and media consumption.
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
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
Cultivate integrity across inward motives, speech, conduct, sexuality, and media consumption.
Cultivate unconditional, wise, and responsible love that extends beyond preference or personal reward.
Build direct access for people in need into systems of property, agriculture, and economic production.
Speak honestly, listen carefully, and preserve respect and care during controversy.
Make conduct a visible testimony to truth, peace, equality, simplicity, community, and stewardship.
Hear relevant evidence and perspectives before reaching a conclusion.
Seek understanding before judgment and identify both real disagreement and genuine common ground.
Give children an age-appropriate opportunity to express views and take those views seriously.
Treat every person with compassionate attention and reject violence as a normal means of solving conflict.
Reduce needless consumption, status display, and complexity that burden people or creation.
Resist consumerism and status-seeking through disciplined simplicity, generosity, and service.
Reduce material excess so time, attention, and resources remain available for God, community, and service.
Translate spiritual knowledge into daily thoughts, words, decisions, relationships, and action.
Treat immigrants, resident strangers, and socially displaced persons with dignity, fairness, and active concern.
Refuse hatred and seek humane responses toward opponents.
Seek the well-being of people in one's moral community.
Continue protecting confidential patient information even after the patient has died.
Continue learning as knowledge, standards, risks, and technologies change.
Respond to severe difficulty with perseverance, mutual support, and confidence that constructive action remains possible.
Ensure responsible humans can review, override, repair, or stop systems that risk serious harm.
Do not take sides in hostilities or partisan controversies when neutrality is necessary to reach and protect people.
Do not permit partisan, national, ethnic, or military allegiance to override peace, impartiality, and religious conscience.
Cultivate cleanliness externally and replace destructive mental habits with constructive ones.
Ensure consequential systems are reviewable and subject to responsibility.
FIELD GUIDE · PURPOSE AND BOUNDARIES
World Morals is a source-oriented atlas for readers comparing moral teachings across religious and secular traditions. It provides ways to explore a finite corpus while keeping the difference between a recorded mapping and independently verified evidence visible.
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Choose a teaching or a system rather than beginning with a universal conclusion. Read its definition and source basis, then inspect the associated mappings. Open the source and methodology views to understand how a relationship entered the corpus. A label such as official source or specific anchor describes a record’s provenance category; it is not a substitute for reading the cited passage in context.
Use the comparison lab and matrix to formulate questions. Shared mappings may suggest a topic worth investigating, while differences may reflect wording, edition coverage or research gaps. Neither a checked cell nor an empty cell establishes what every adherent believes or how a whole society behaves.
Select a familiar moral theme and compare its records across two systems. Write down the source labels, what has actually been quoted and what remains a summary. Follow the source references before drawing a conclusion. Record a disagreement or missing passage as an open research issue rather than filling the gap with an attractive generalization.
For a classroom discussion, separate three questions: what the dataset records, what a primary text says, and how people interpret or practice it. The atlas directly organizes the first question. The other two need contextual reading, historical scholarship and, where appropriate, the voices of the communities being discussed.
The corpus is an edition with explicit scope and unresolved research statuses. Counts describe records and relationships, not moral superiority, global prevalence or the completeness of a tradition. Geographic and historical displays disclose where research is missing. English source material remains in its original language even when navigation and explanatory interface copy are Spanish.