Build family trust through honesty
Use truthful, dependable communication to strengthen security and peace within family life.
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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
Build inclusive communities across belief differences
Create communities where people of religious, humanist, agnostic, and other convictions participate with equal dignity.
Build peace through inner and social transformation
Connect individual moral change with family, community, national, and global peace.
Build peaceful alternatives to violence
Create institutions and practices that resolve conflict without warfare or coercion.
Build right relationships
Shape relationships through love, respect, dignity, equity, compassion, justice, and inclusion.
Build robust and secure AI systems
Design systems to function safely under normal use, foreseeable misuse, and adverse conditions.
Build safety barriers against foreseeable hazards
Take practical preventive measures when one's property or activity creates a predictable risk of injury.
Build solidarity through international understanding
Educate people to recognize shared humanity, global interdependence, and responsibility across borders.
Build trustworthy communities
Support institutions and relationships worthy of confidence.
Care for bodily health
Treat bodily life as carrying duties of prudent care.
Care for children and dependents
Provide protection, education, affection, and material support.
Care for health through disciplined lifestyle
Practice health-supporting habits involving diet, rest, exercise, temperance, and avoidance of harmful substances.
Care for the community of life with compassion
Exercise human power with understanding, restraint, compassion, and responsibility toward people and other life.
Care for the dying
Provide dignity, presence, comfort, and proportionate care near death.
Care for the environment as a shared home
Protect environmental conditions necessary for present and future well-being.
Care for the poor
Provide material help and social protection.
Care for the sick
Attend to illness, disability, and frailty.
Care for widows and orphans
Protect persons exposed to social and economic vulnerability.
Care intelligently for the body
Use health knowledge, rest, exercise, nutrition, and disciplined habits to protect bodily and mental well-being.
Center the repair of harm
Respond to wrongdoing by identifying and repairing harm to victims, relationships, and communities.
Choose entertainment that supports moral character
Select media and recreation that foster purity, health, beauty, joy, and responsible character.
Choose entertainment that supports moral character
Evaluate media and recreation by their effects on purity, empathy, health, judgment, and constructive relationships.
Clothe those in need
Assist people lacking adequate clothing.
Combine discipleship with social justice
Join personal moral formation with practical action against poverty, exclusion, and injustice.