Guarantee a safe and healthy workplace
Prevent avoidable occupational injury, illness, violence, and exposure to hazards.
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
Prevent avoidable occupational injury, illness, violence, and exposure to hazards.
Provide timely and understandable information needed for public participation in environmental decisions.
Give relevant parties a fair opportunity to be heard.
Extend compassionate concern beyond preference, tribe, resentment, or reciprocal advantage.
Prefer assistance that restores stable work, partnership, credit, or independence when feasible.
Assist when a person or working animal is struggling under a dangerous or excessive burden.
Subject rulers and institutions to moral and legal standards.
Place public safety, health, welfare, and environmental protection above convenience, prestige, or profit.
Show respect, attention, and practical consideration to older persons and accumulated wisdom.
Treat parents and caregivers with respect and appropriate care.
Keep vows and solemn religious promises unless they require wrongdoing.
Treat bodily health, sexuality, rest, and self-discipline as integral dimensions of moral life.
Recognize, document, conserve, and transmit monuments, sites, traditions, and other culturally significant inheritances.
Explain technological capabilities, consequences, risks, and limitations clearly enough to support informed decisions.
Ensure meaningful participation in decisions affecting community life and future.
Use representative institutions and good-faith consultation in laws, policies, research, and development affecting Indigenous communities.
Promote dignity, access, and participation.
Require decision-makers and producers to bear the real ecological and social costs of their activities.
Welcome disciplined inquiry and reject beliefs that cannot withstand honest examination and moral reflection.
Combine compassionate goodwill with fairness, responsibility, and protection against wrongdoing.
Treat inner freedom as inseparable from wisdom, accountability, and concern for the consequences of one's choices.
Unite professed faith with concrete action addressing hunger, homelessness, exploitation, addiction, disaster, and exclusion.
Do not favor the rich, powerful, familiar, or socially preferred.
Protect entrusted information unless disclosure is required to prevent serious harm.
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.