On Moral Authorities

[The Grand Nudger]

The happiest human life consists in ____________.

Consider how you fill in the blank.

No point, that's not the foundation of my moral system.  Whats expressed above would be hedonism in one form or another.  The pursuit of pleasure.

If there is no such thing as human nature, then there is no such thing as human perfection in the universal sense. Arbitrary (in the sense that it is not directed [by] any object) individual judgment (i.e. pure subjectivity), on that account, would be the moral authority. If everyone is their own arbitrary moral authority, then there is no actual moral authority beyond those which are able to exert their own arbitrary judgment upon others. All people, therefore, would be subjects who try to act in ways that would conform either to their own arbitrary judgments about their delusions of happiness, or else, in common with their fellow coerced, that would conform to the exerted arbitrary judgments of another.

I think that onc we appeal to individual judgment as a moral authority we have ceased to refer to moral authority in a meaningful sense, maybe in a practical sense...as in, as close to a moral authority as anything gets.  In this, again, we see the notion that power, the ability to exert moral judgement on others, makes one a moral authority which could only -be- true in the more meaningful sense of a moral authority if might made right....which isn't something I'd agree with in any case.  

Though I have to say...that on the balance of what we see in the world with all these competing moral systems, I'd say that all of the above looks to be the case, at least as practically employed by human beings and insomuch as we have a lessened bar for moral authority expressed therein. In short....whats expressed above seems to -be- how we "do morality" - but I'd chalk that up to us being less-than-rational creatures who consistently fail even by their own moral standards to adhere to moral standards, lol.