한국윤리교육학회

This study aimed to clarify that essay instruction is a main effective tool to build a subject rather than just a means of college entrance examination. For the goal, the study inspected how that instruction was currently putting its priority on college admission tests. And this research looked into ethics of the ancient times and Michel Foucault’s discussions of the ethics in his late period. Through this process, the study could extract and hereby suggest four conditions that essay-making education should meet to become a significant way of subject establishment. The four conditions are as follows. The first is technology(technē) and truth, the second, persuasion and discipline, the third, leisure and practice, and the fourth is educator’s requests. In describing the four requirements in detail, this study appropriately turned to some of the ancient ethics, particularly discourses by Plato and Aristotle. Moreover, the research developed the description with reference to the above mentioned later discussions by Foucault. Here, this study restricted the reference to the philosopher’s ways of subject establishment, ‘speaking and listening’ and ‘reading and writing’. And, the study treated those ways within the frameworks of ancient ethics.