'Charity' or helping others exists in all other cultures too. Thats not inherentliy christian. Nonetheless, ikigai is more than just what christians wanted. Ik

'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.