Ensure traceability of datasets and decisions
Maintain records of data, processes, changes, and responsibilities sufficient for investigation and accountability.
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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
Establish integrity before meditation and wisdom
Treat harmless and beneficial conduct as the necessary foundation for concentration and insight.
Examine conscience about omitted good
Ask not only whether harm was committed but whether reasonable opportunities to do good were neglected.
Examine the motive behind good works
Distinguish sincere service from self-display, manipulation, merit-seeking, or hypocrisy.
Examine yourself
Evaluate motives, conduct, failures, and responsibilities.
Exercise inclusive and equitable governance
Use authority in ways that include affected people, distribute power fairly, and improve collective well-being.
Explain consequential automated outcomes
Provide meaningful information enabling affected people to understand and challenge important outcomes.
Explain the reasons behind moral rules
Help learners understand the harms prevented and goods promoted by moral norms.
Extend compassion without discrimination
Recognize the equal moral relevance of suffering regardless of nationality, religion, status, or group identity.
Feed the hungry
Relieve hunger through provision and just distribution.
Follow conscience without coercion
Allow persons to form and revise beliefs through conscience, experience, reflection, and free inquiry.
Forgive
Release vengeance when morally appropriate.
Forgive and love enemies
Release hatred and seek the moral good even of persons who oppose, injure, or misunderstand.
Forgive or restructure impossible debts
Provide humane relief when repayment becomes destructive.
Form a trustworthy conscience
Cultivate an inward disposition that recognizes wrongdoing even when misconduct could remain hidden.
Fulfill vows and promises responsibly
Honor legitimate commitments, ethical obligations, and freely undertaken spiritual or communal promises.
Give charity without self-glorification
Assist others without humiliating recipients or using generosity for vanity.
Give credit for others' work
Do not plagiarize or falsely claim authorship.
Give truthful affirmation without manipulative oaths
Speak truth reliably without using sacred oaths as substitutes for ordinary honesty.
Give victims a meaningful voice
Allow harmed persons to describe impacts, needs, and desired forms of repair without coercion.
Give water to the thirsty
Meet basic needs for safe water.
Give without humiliating the recipient
Protect dignity when providing aid.
Govern oneself by moral and spiritual law
Develop inward discipline so conscience and principle direct conduct without constant external compulsion.
Ground ethics in suffering and flourishing
Evaluate conduct by its effects on the suffering, freedom, dignity, and flourishing of sentient beings.