Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-03-27]: The director and producer Werner Herzog shot a documentary in 3D for the famous cave paintings of Chauvet in southern France [source: CNN Edition]. The cave contains some of the oldest paintings of man, aged over 20.000 years. And if today art is trying frantically to find ways to become more innovative, the paintings of Chauvet are simple and meaningfull, showing things that we have forgotten - things we only remember as childs. The most important thing is that "we are there", that we "exist". Not Time, not Change, not all of these details that we take for granted but the primitive people did not even know because simply noone had thaught them to take for granted, perhaps because they never were. A hand imprint on the wall of the cave is a Dasein that Heidegger himself would envy... We are here, they say... As if no time has ever passed...
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