Is the experience of
beauty largely the same between individuals before we add in
social/normative aesthetic judgments?
Judgments of beauty appear to be similar before aesthetic judgment are normalized by social processes. For instance, flowers are often considered beautiful independently across varied cultures (Native American Cultures, Persia, China). These cultures presumably are not all incidentally socializing their members to judge that flowers are beautiful. Therefore there is some natural consensus that flowers are in some way beautiful, and this consensus may apply to many other things that are generally considered beautiful.
We cannot certainly determine that the natural experience of beauty is largely the same between people, but it seems likely that there are some innate criteria that people agree on when they consider something beautiful, and these things are not socially transmitted.
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