Ontology of Forms of Relationship and the Problem of Institutional Monopoly under Chronic Instability

This article undertakes a philosophical analysis of the forms of relationship within the framework of the ontology of finite continuity. The central thesis is that relationship requires form for continuity, but agency requires the possibility of changing form for its own continuity; therefore, the ethical problem is not the existence of form, but the monopoly of form and the prioritization of its continuity over the continuity of agency. By defining "institutional monopoly" as a four-layered mechanism in which institutions, society, norms, and the subject successively transform a specific form into the sole legitimate form, the article demonstrates how a "relationship" is converted into "institutional identity." The "automatic mask" in this framework is introduced not as the primary definition of marriage, but as the consequence of the monopoly of form. By presenting a model of the "ethical plurality of relationship," in which consent, responsibility, revisability, sufficiency, and non-destruction of the other's agency serve as ethical constraints, the article concludes that no form of relationship is inherently erosive; erosion begins when the continuity of form is prioritized over the continuity of agency. The "post-monopoly human," as a philosophical ideal type, is a subject who has acquired the capacity to distinguish between the continuity of relationship and the continuity of a specific form, and who has transcended its monopoly rather than rejecting form altogether. Keywords: ontology of form, institutional monopoly, stabilization of form, institutional identity, responsible suspension, ethical plurality of relationship, post-monopoly human, finite continuity.