This is a challenging read but Soren is essential to post-war philosophy. The book itself presents cool ideas but the writing could be improved. I think Kierkegaard has a fantastic and accurate interpretation of the inner world, but it is very easy to misconstrue his ideas as religious defense. He defends that either you're a hedonist (aesthetic) or religious (individuation) by choice, not by societal dogma, and that ethics is simply a transition step. He emphasizes Christianity vs Helenistic Philosophy, and how christianity introduced a split between body and spirit in existential decisions forever. He criticized religion in a sense that most religious people practice religion aesthetically, for societal inclusion and to fit the mold; rather, a religious connection is intimate, unexpressable and unexplainable. Most religious people nowadays practice no autoexamination, and only attend to religious utilitarianism. The fact that some people can remain in the aesthetic sphere all their life without internal evolution, although capable of reflexive understanding, is spot on. I would just say that for the mentally unstable, the teleological suspension of ethics is a very dangerous concept because it trivializes good and evil. It says you can ignore morality if a higher calling is sensed, and most people cannot distinguish between both.