"SVAJONIŲ ŽUDIKAS", ARBA KANTO ETIKOS RIBOS
THE ‘KILLER OF DREAMS’ OR THE LIMITS OF KANT’S ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the notion of ‘life’ in Kant’s practical philosophy. This notion is being compared with the notion of ourday life, which we find in the novel of Helen Fielding ‘Bridget Jone’s Diary’. The relation between these two notions is being analyzed as a relation between two paradigms: the paradigm of reason and the paradigm of heart. The image of the ‘killer of dreams’ is requested to show that the duty to state factual truth is not always, what is of cruicial importance to our lives. Factual truth is only part of the concept of truth, not all of it. A dream is also a fact. At the end, life and reason meat each other in the practice of writing.

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