Anti-Climacus and Neo-Lockeanism

This paper attempts to situate Anti-Climacus ontology of selfhood in the context of contemporary personal identity theory. In important respects, Anti-Climacus can be read as belonging to a tradition, originating with Locke, that sees psychological continuity as conferring selfhood or personhood. However, the curious temporal characteristics of spirit presented in The Sickness Unto Death point to crucial differences between the Anti-Climacan approach to the question of self-constitution and that taken by mainstream neo-Lockean personal identity theorists.