批评神秘、博爱，灵性主义的思想

Kierkegaard首先摒除了抽象的孤立的希腊伦理观；其次重点分析和摒除了神秘主义。“对于神秘论者，整个世界是死的，他爱上了自己的上帝。”

【295】神秘论者把偶然性也当成必然性；有一种虚弱；对世界的欺骗；“我是神秘论者的敌人，尤其是作为丈夫，作为父亲我是如此。”

【298】这里有神秘论者路德维希的自杀，因为“没有人能够忍受‘去看见那无限的’。”【299】神秘论者自由的选择，却没有伦理地选择。

【301】“神秘论者抽象地选择了他自己。”

Tom Sargeant:

"...even now you claim how much you love the people--the courageous people on the bus.Yes! Of course you love the people! Because in less than three minutes,you can get off!

Loving people is an easy project.Loving a person is something different ,something that will take you right to the fringe"

Tom:

You know Alice. She got hold of this bloody word ‘spiritual’. It’s one of those words I’ve never quite understood. I mean, I’ve always hated the way people use it. They use it to try and bump themselves up. ‘Oh I’ve had a spiritual experience,’ they say …

As if that’s the end of the argument. Spiritual, meaning: ‘it’s mine and shove off.’ People use it to prove they’re sensitive. They want it to dignify quite ordinary things. (Tom has started by half-sending himself up but now he gets firmer as he goes.) Religion. Now, that is something different. I like religion. Because religion has rules. It’s based on something which actually occurred. There are things to believe in. And what’s more, what makes it worth following – not that I do, mind you – there’s some expectation of how you’re meant to behave.

But ‘spiritual’ … well, it’s all wishy-washy. It means ‘well for me, for me this is terribly important, but I’m fucked if I can really say why …’