Q&A Question Two

If we need others to share our aesthetic judgment because, “They ought to share it on pain of making a judgment which is incorrect or inappropriate [. . .] we don't want them to make incorrect judgments.” Why do we care if they make the wrong aesthetic judgments? (If we accept this as true it seems that aesthetic judgment is not objective but totally conditional on social coercion, therefore making the 'wrongness' of anyones judgment impossible.)

To address this we need to assume several things. Mostly that the action of experiencing beauty is a fundamentally subjective activity. This activity can be influenced and changed by normalization caused by social externalities to the subject experiencing beauty. For example, a person's experience of beauty in a piece of music will be affected by her social condition.

The drive to correct others seems to be fueled by the misperception that the experience of beauty is objective, or atleast the same between all individuals. While there does seem to be some basic agreement over what is beautiful, once we realize that there is no reason to legislate on the experience itself there seems like no reason to force our judgments on others. For some reason people still try to force their aesthetic judgments on others. 

I'm not arguing that reality is relative to each person's judgments and thus their judgments should not be subjected to reason. I am arguing that some areas of human experience, such as the experience of the aesthetic, can not effectively be regulated on the basis of reason.