Seek peace through nonviolent witness
Reject violence and work actively for reconciliation, justice, and prevention of war.
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
Reject violence and work actively for reconciliation, justice, and prevention of war.
Gather, verify, contextualize, and communicate information with honesty and fairness.
Direct attention and conduct toward what is morally excellent and constructive.
Cultivate knowledge, discernment, and ethical understanding.
Give practical service to people, communities, animals, and the wider living world as gratitude for life.
Express spirituality through compassionate service, social justice, equality, and care for human dignity.
Respond practically to hunger, poverty, ignorance, exploitation, disaster, and displacement.
Recognize that individuals have duties toward family, community, the state, and lawful social institutions.
Translate devotion and compassion into practical help for people and other living beings.
Offer practical service freely and joyfully for the welfare of the community.
Accept effort or hardship for another's real welfare without seeking repayment, status, or recognition.
Offer humanitarian service from commitment to human welfare rather than profit, prestige, or coercion.
Develop and deploy AI so its benefits contribute to broadly shared well-being and sustainable development.
Promote access while respecting safety and privacy.
Avoid extracting community knowledge without consent, credit, protection, and fair benefit.
Assist others in hardship, grief, and responsibility.
Advance healthcare through responsible teaching, research, and collaboration.
Promote fair access to health, scientific knowledge, and beneficial technologies.
Assist people lacking safe housing.
Reject racial and ethnic hatred and treat people of every language, color, and nation with equal spiritual concern.
Temper judgment with concern for restoration.
Reduce distraction, excess, and status-seeking in order to focus on truth, relationships, service, and peace.
Offer speech when it is timely and likely to be useful rather than merely impulsive.
Use speech that contributes to understanding, healing, moral growth, or legitimate protection.
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.