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 ...