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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.
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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.

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610 teachings found · Edition XXI

M512 · Latter-day Saint Moral Agency

Keep thoughts, words, and actions morally clean

Cultivate integrity across inward motives, speech, conduct, sexuality, and media consumption.

7 / 93 systems mapped · 7.5%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M609 · Eckankar Spiritual Freedom and Responsibility

Learn to love as God loves

Cultivate unconditional, wise, and responsible love that extends beyond preference or personal reward.

1 / 93 systems mapped · 1.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M460 · Jewish Mitzvot and Applied Justice

Leave a portion of produce for the poor

Build direct access for people in need into systems of property, agriculture, and economic production.

6 / 93 systems mapped · 6.5%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M553 · Moravian Unity, Liberty and Love

Let love govern disagreement

Speak honestly, listen carefully, and preserve respect and care during controversy.

4 / 93 systems mapped · 4.3%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M516 · Quaker Testimony Ethics

Let one's life speak

Make conduct a visible testimony to truth, peace, equality, simplicity, community, and stewardship.

12 / 93 systems mapped · 12.9%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M011 · Truth, Speech and Knowledge

Listen before judging

Hear relevant evidence and perspectives before reaching a conclusion.

42 / 93 systems mapped · 45.2%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M555 · Moravian Unity, Liberty and Love

Listen honestly across differences

Seek understanding before judgment and identify both real disagreement and genuine common ground.

4 / 93 systems mapped · 4.3%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M246 · Children's Rights and Development

Listen to children in matters affecting them

Give children an age-appropriate opportunity to express views and take those views seriously.

3 / 93 systems mapped · 3.2%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M394 · Brethren Peace, Simplicity and Service

Live peacefully in attentive respect

Treat every person with compassionate attention and reject violence as a normal means of solving conflict.

23 / 93 systems mapped · 24.7%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M241 · Peace, Equality and Simplicity

Live simply

Reduce needless consumption, status display, and complexity that burden people or creation.

17 / 93 systems mapped · 18.3%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M351 · Christian Peace-Church Ethics

Live simply as a witness against materialism

Resist consumerism and status-seeking through disciplined simplicity, generosity, and service.

23 / 93 systems mapped · 24.7%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M396 · Brethren Peace, Simplicity and Service

Live simply to make room for others

Reduce material excess so time, attention, and resources remain available for God, community, and service.

22 / 93 systems mapped · 23.7%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M556 · Unity and New Thought Spiritual Practice

Live the truth one understands

Translate spiritual knowledge into daily thoughts, words, decisions, relationships, and action.

4 / 93 systems mapped · 4.3%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M468 · Jewish Mitzvot and Applied Justice

Love and protect the stranger

Treat immigrants, resident strangers, and socially displaced persons with dignity, fairness, and active concern.

13 / 93 systems mapped · 14.0%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M111 · Family, Sexuality and Relationships

Love or care for one's neighbor

Seek the well-being of people in one's moral community.

47 / 93 systems mapped · 50.5%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M503 · Physician's Pledge and Medical Professionalism

Maintain confidentiality after death

Continue protecting confidential patient information even after the patient has died.

1 / 93 systems mapped · 1.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M197 · Professional and Computing Ethics

Maintain continuing competence

Continue learning as knowledge, standards, risks, and technologies change.

4 / 93 systems mapped · 4.3%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M494 · Tenrikyo Joyous-Life Ethics

Maintain hope during adversity

Respond to severe difficulty with perseverance, mutual support, and confidence that constructive action remains possible.

6 / 93 systems mapped · 6.5%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M271 · AI Governance and Information Integrity

Maintain human oversight of high-impact systems

Ensure responsible humans can review, override, repair, or stop systems that risk serious harm.

8 / 93 systems mapped · 8.6%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M380 · Humanitarian Action and Impartial Service

Maintain humanitarian neutrality

Do not take sides in hostilities or partisan controversies when neutrality is necessary to reach and protect people.

15 / 93 systems mapped · 16.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M601 · Jehovah's Witness Christian Conduct

Maintain political and military neutrality

Do not permit partisan, national, ethnic, or military allegiance to override peace, impartiality, and religious conscience.

2 / 93 systems mapped · 2.2%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M594 · Ananda Marga Yama and Niyama

Maintain purity of mind, body, and surroundings

Cultivate cleanliness externally and replace destructive mental habits with constructive ones.

2 / 93 systems mapped · 2.2%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M176 · Animals, Environment, Health and Technology

Make automated decisions accountable

Ensure consequential systems are reviewable and subject to responsibility.

40 / 93 systems mapped · 43.0%
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.

FIELD GUIDE · PURPOSE AND BOUNDARIES

World Morals: practical use and context

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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Start with a teaching, then follow its evidence

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.

A careful comparative reading exercise

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.

Coverage is not a ranking of traditions

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.