Re:Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
by a_bonobo on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:08PM
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>Very few people have access
"Man is born free and everywhere is in chains" - as Rousseau said 300 years ago.
Re:Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
by Oioioioiio on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:51AM
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'Charity' or helping others exists in all other cultures too. Thats not inherentliy christian.
Nonetheless, ikigai is more than just what christians wanted. Ikigai means different things for different people and the zeitgeist and your cirumstances are having a big part in it.
Dark ages were dark in sense of we have not that many records of it, there were little change.
'Art' was stuck and pressured from church and others. Art became art after all the revolutionary ideas and probably achieved the proper unlimitness of art today.
> And regarding your quote of the Christians: They don't live it either or never lived.
Lots of people have. Not everyone was perfect, but it was an aspiration, and there are whole traditions of monasticism and other service based on it. It is no accident that the word organisations that help others is derived from a Christian theological term, charity.
> The dark ages produced a lot of christian focused 'art' full of gold.
The dark ages were not dark.
Art is one of the things that contribute to the community, and its creation leads the artist to fulfilment. Public art (which is what religious art usually is) is the opposite of hoarding private art.
> A world with unlimited possibilities.
Very few people have access "unlimited possibilities". Financial constraints, legal constraints, personal constraints..