We find beauty in such things as religious ideas, charming manners, craftsmanship, truthfulness, originality, mathematical proofs, and scientific theories. Female college students shown videos of male behavior were asked to decide whether the men seemed attractive to them. The scores showed that regardless of physical appearance, an altruistic man was judged to be attractive. When they were also dominant, altruistic men received higher scores, but dominance characteristics did not add to the low scores of selfish men. That depends on how you define it.
Most people think of awareness as part of being self-aware.
This talent is present in humans older than 18 months - and in the higher apes. Self-awareness improves the ability to learn quickly from others, and makes possible culture that can be handed down from one generation to the next. We've all seen films of wild chimpanzee youngsters learning how to make tools by watching their mothers strip leaves off twigs for digging out termites. Our hominid ancestors, possibly descendants of self-aware apes, developed a deeper culture thanks to the construction of their thumbs. With strong, flexible thumbs on their deft hands, hominids began to make things to use.