Combine wisdom with compassion
Join careful understanding of causes and consequences with an active concern to reduce suffering.
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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
Comfort those who mourn
Offer presence, compassion, and practical care in grief.
Compete fairly
Do not use collusion, coercion, or abusive market power to undermine fair competition.
Conduct human-rights due diligence
Identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for adverse human-rights impacts connected to business activity.
Confess and repair wrongdoing
Acknowledge harmful actions honestly and undertake repentance, repair, and renewed discipline.
Consider future generations
Evaluate long-term consequences for people not yet born.
Contribute to national and social solidarity
Use one's abilities and resources to strengthen collective welfare rather than fragmentation or domination.
Control anger
Prevent anger from producing cruelty or injustice.
Cooperate across differences in belief
Work with people of other religions or none on shared moral and humanitarian goals.
Cooperate internationally to protect shared heritage
Provide scientific, technical, financial, and institutional cooperation when heritage preservation exceeds local capacity.
Correct harmful misinformation
Take reasonable steps to correct false information that harms persons or communities.
Correct wrongdoing constructively
Address another person's harmful conduct honestly while avoiding humiliation, hatred, or vindictive rebuke.
Create meaning through responsible human action
Accept responsibility for building meaningful lives and humane societies without waiting for supernatural intervention.
Cultivate hope
Sustain responsible confidence amid adversity.
Cultivate inner peace before outward action
Develop stable peace of mind so choices and relationships are less governed by fear, anger, and reactivity.
Cultivate joy in others' good
Resist jealousy and celebrate another person's flourishing.
Cultivate moral hope
Sustain confidence that persons and communities can repent, heal, learn, and improve.
Cultivate the Joyous Life
Order personal and communal life toward gratitude, harmony, service, hope, and shared joy.
Declare and manage public conflicts of interest
Require public officials to disclose and manage interests that may compromise impartial service.
Defend the rights of others peacefully
Act individually or with others to promote and protect universally recognized human rights through peaceful means.
Defend victims of trafficking and slavery
Protect persons treated as property or instruments.
Design inclusively from the beginning
Plan environments, services, products, and technologies for the broadest practical range of users.
Develop purposeful compassion
Organize compassionate service intentionally so that assistance is sustained, competent, and responsive to real needs.
Discipline the mind and senses
Develop self-control so impulses, desires, and emotional reactions do not dominate moral judgment.