In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ... Taylor in his book Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship: A Study of Time and the Self describes the moment as: "In this moment, one faces one's possibilities in full recognition of one's actuality, and with a complete awareness of one's freedom (limited though it is) to act to realize these possibilities. ... Let us say that it is now six fifty nine in the morning and this person starts work at eight o"clock and in order to get to work on time they have to be up by seven o"clock at ...

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Kierkegaard notes this in bodily sickness, but far from being true, death only succumbs to the end of the body, meaning to say to die from a bodily death. ... This is expressed in the book Purity of the Heart, saying the readiness of the person to "will the good in truth and the disposition and to let go of double mindedness and the consolations of temporality" . ... In the book of Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard in a way expresses Abraham's earthly hope for Isaac as being given up, but nonetheless shows a sense of eternal hope beyond the calculations of his understanding . ...

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