Thoughts about how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term
C.S. Lewis’s distinction between the ways of knowing “looking at” and “looking along”, which in German roughly correspond to “wissen” and “kennen” respectively (or in French “savoir” and “connaître”), is a very helpful one.
I would like to apply it here to an issue that is particularly close to my heart.
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In his short essay “Meditation in a Toolshed” C.S. Lewis makes an extremely helpful distinction between the two fundamental ways of knowing.
He calls them looking along and looking at.
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