Speak with goodwill
Let truthful speech be motivated by care rather than cruelty, revenge, or humiliation.
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
Let truthful speech be motivated by care rather than cruelty, revenge, or humiliation.
Do not exaggerate certainty, capability, cost, schedule, performance, or safety.
Base estimates, claims, forecasts, and representations on available evidence without distortion.
Manage personal capacities, possessions, opportunities, and the environment responsibly for service and future well-being.
Maintain relationships that promote tolerance, reciprocity, social trust, and peaceful coexistence.
Repair inherited hostility and social division.
Respond to addiction with accountability, treatment, compassion, and community support.
Preserve opportunities for learning, creativity, spirituality, and meaningful contribution in old age.
Recognize and reduce greed, anger, hatred, partiality, and other habits that obstruct compassionate living.
Demonstrate honesty, kindness, restraint, and responsibility so moral education is embodied rather than merely stated.
Develop knowledge and skills for dialogue, mediation, nonviolent action, and reconciliation.
Transmit knowledge accurately and without coercive manipulation.
Speak and act honestly rather than intentionally misleading others.
Examine spiritual claims through sincere practice, reflection, experience, and responsible judgment rather than coercion.
Treat basic moral discipline as a necessary foundation for concentration, wisdom, and spiritual development.
Change destructive habits and cultivate courage, wisdom, and compassion as the basis for social improvement.
Use discipline, wisdom, patience, generosity, and compassion for the benefit of others.
Make belief in human unity visible through opposition to racism, inequity, and discriminatory conduct.
Protect ecological systems so future generations inherit conditions capable of supporting life, health, and flourishing.
Preserve cultural and natural heritage so future generations can know, use, interpret, and appreciate it.
Place shared human dignity and common vulnerability above divisive identity or ideology.
Avoid cruelty and unnecessary harm to animals and recognize the moral significance of nonhuman life.
Recognize equal spiritual worth and the gifts each person can contribute.
Regard people across nations and religions as brothers and sisters sharing a common divine origin.
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.