%0 Journal Article %T ON BEAUTY AND THE BEAUTIFUL IN AESTHETIC EDUCATION %A Bor£¿e Kostov %J International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education %D 2013 %I Association for the Development of Science, Engineering and Education %X We titled our work ¡°On Beauty and the Beautiful in Aesthetic Education¡± and we analyzed the category of beautiful in function of better understanding the issues of aesthetic education.The basic point was the fact that the determination of the term beautiful is different in both time aspect and space aspect. Also, the authors involved in this matter have got different understanding on the issue of beautiful, on its essence, on its role in human development and on the development of the aesthetics and the aesthetic education.Therefore, within our work, there is an attempt to differ the approaches towards the category of beautiful, to comment on it, to compare it and finally to give our approach. %K Aesthetic education %K Aesthetics %K Pedagogy %K Philosophy %K Theories of beautiful %U http://ijcrsee.com/index.php/ijcrsee/article/view/6/19