Guarantee a safe and healthy workplace
Prevent avoidable occupational injury, illness, violence, and exposure to hazards.
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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
Guarantee access to environmental information
Provide timely and understandable information needed for public participation in environmental decisions.
Hear both sides of a dispute
Give relevant parties a fair opportunity to be heard.
Help others without discrimination between friend and foe
Extend compassionate concern beyond preference, tribe, resentment, or reciprocal advantage.
Help people become economically self-sufficient
Prefer assistance that restores stable work, partnership, credit, or independence when feasible.
Help relieve an overburdened person or animal
Assist when a person or working animal is struggling under a dangerous or excessive burden.
Hold leaders accountable
Subject rulers and institutions to moral and legal standards.
Hold public safety paramount in technical decisions
Place public safety, health, welfare, and environmental protection above convenience, prestige, or profit.
Honor elders and the aged
Show respect, attention, and practical consideration to older persons and accumulated wisdom.
Honor parents
Treat parents and caregivers with respect and appropriate care.
Honor sacred commitments
Keep vows and solemn religious promises unless they require wrongdoing.
Honor the body as a moral responsibility
Treat bodily health, sexuality, rest, and self-discipline as integral dimensions of moral life.
Identify and protect cultural heritage
Recognize, document, conserve, and transmit monuments, sites, traditions, and other culturally significant inheritances.
Improve public understanding of technology
Explain technological capabilities, consequences, risks, and limitations clearly enough to support informed decisions.
Include affected peoples in decisions
Ensure meaningful participation in decisions affecting community life and future.
Include Indigenous peoples in decisions affecting them
Use representative institutions and good-faith consultation in laws, policies, research, and development affecting Indigenous communities.
Include persons with disabilities
Promote dignity, access, and participation.
Internalize environmental and social costs
Require decision-makers and producers to bear the real ecological and social costs of their activities.
Join faith with reason
Welcome disciplined inquiry and reject beliefs that cannot withstand honest examination and moral reflection.
Join love with justice
Combine compassionate goodwill with fairness, responsibility, and protection against wrongdoing.
Join spiritual freedom with responsibility
Treat inner freedom as inseparable from wisdom, accountability, and concern for the consequences of one's choices.
Join spiritual proclamation with practical service
Unite professed faith with concrete action addressing hunger, homelessness, exploitation, addiction, disaster, and exclusion.
Judge impartially
Do not favor the rich, powerful, familiar, or socially preferred.
Keep confidences
Protect entrusted information unless disclosure is required to prevent serious harm.