Pursue Christlike character in ordinary life
Shape conduct, relationships, work, and service around humility, love, purity, truth, and mercy.
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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
Pursue reconciliation without domination
Seek restored relationships through truth, justice, forgiveness, and noncoercive peacemaking.
Pursue sustainable development
Meet present needs while preserving ecological integrity and future generations' ability to meet their own needs.
Pursue the common good
Order choices toward shared flourishing.
Put ethical deeds before professions of belief
Judge moral seriousness primarily by conduct rather than labels, declarations, or group identity.
Put patient health and well-being first
Make the patient's health and well-being the physician's first professional consideration.
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger
Treat the rescue of persons held in dangerous captivity as an urgent charitable and communal duty.
Receive precepts as living commitments
Treat moral precepts as continuing practices of self-examination and transformation.
Recognize health as a fundamental human right
Promote access to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
Recognize humanity as one spiritual family
Treat people across identities and nations as members of one human family deserving respect and inclusion.
Recognize inherent goodness in every person
Treat every person as possessing intrinsic spiritual worth and the capacity for constructive growth.
Recognize spiritual equality
Treat every person as possessing equal spiritual worth and deserving respect.
Recognize the interdependence of life
Understand that persons, communities, species, institutions, and ecosystems affect one another.
Recognize the potential for enlightenment in every person
Treat each person as possessing profound dignity, worth, and the capacity for moral and spiritual growth.
Recognize universal responsibility for human suffering
Treat humanitarian concern as a shared responsibility extending across borders and identities.
Reconcile after conflict
Repair relationships and institutions after violence.
Reconcile family estrangement where safe
Seek repair without requiring return to abuse.
Recover assets obtained through corruption
Trace, freeze, return, or restore property derived from corrupt conduct.
Reduce demand that fuels exploitation
Address commercial and social practices that create markets for trafficking and forced exploitation.
Reduce waste
Avoid unnecessary consumption and disposal.
Refuse military participation as a matter of conscience
Decline participation in warfare when conscience and religious conviction prohibit killing or military service.
Refuse participation in organized violence
Avoid taking up weapons or joining institutions whose purpose requires killing or partisan warfare.
Refuse participation in warfare
Follow a conscientious commitment to nonviolence and decline direct participation in warfare.
Reintegrate people after accountability
Support safe return to community after responsibility, repair, and risk reduction.