Seek peace through nonviolent witness
Reject violence and work actively for reconciliation, justice, and prevention of war.
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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
Seek truth and report it accurately
Gather, verify, contextualize, and communicate information with honesty and fairness.
Seek what is virtuous and praiseworthy
Direct attention and conduct toward what is morally excellent and constructive.
Seek wisdom
Cultivate knowledge, discernment, and ethical understanding.
Serve all life
Give practical service to people, communities, animals, and the wider living world as gratitude for life.
Serve humanity as a spiritual duty
Express spirituality through compassionate service, social justice, equality, and care for human dignity.
Serve neighbors near and far
Respond practically to hunger, poverty, ignorance, exploitation, disaster, and displacement.
Serve one's family and society responsibly
Recognize that individuals have duties toward family, community, the state, and lawful social institutions.
Serve others as an expression of spiritual love
Translate devotion and compassion into practical help for people and other living beings.
Serve others through willing labor
Offer practical service freely and joyfully for the welfare of the community.
Serve those in genuine need without expecting reward
Accept effort or hardship for another's real welfare without seeking repayment, status, or recognition.
Serve voluntarily without desire for gain
Offer humanitarian service from commitment to human welfare rather than profit, prestige, or coercion.
Share AI benefits inclusively
Develop and deploy AI so its benefits contribute to broadly shared well-being and sustainable development.
Share beneficial knowledge responsibly
Promote access while respecting safety and privacy.
Share benefits from research and knowledge
Avoid extracting community knowledge without consent, credit, protection, and fair benefit.
Share burdens
Assist others in hardship, grief, and responsibility.
Share medical knowledge for human benefit
Advance healthcare through responsible teaching, research, and collaboration.
Share the benefits of scientific progress
Promote fair access to health, scientific knowledge, and beneficial technologies.
Shelter the homeless
Assist people lacking safe housing.
Show impartial love across race and ethnicity
Reject racial and ethnic hatred and treat people of every language, color, and nation with equal spiritual concern.
Show mercy
Temper judgment with concern for restoration.
Simplify life around what matters most
Reduce distraction, excess, and status-seeking in order to focus on truth, relationships, service, and peace.
Speak at the right time
Offer speech when it is timely and likely to be useful rather than merely impulsive.
Speak beneficially
Use speech that contributes to understanding, healing, moral growth, or legitimate protection.