Structural Tension and the Visibility of Loss: Principles S1, S4, S6, S7 of the Axiomatic Theory of Tragic Subjecthood. Article 5

This article examines the structural mechanism by which organised systems conceal moral loss — and the consequences of that concealment for accountability and legitimacy. The point of departure is the Closure Theorem of the Moral Field (T1), established in the article "The Asymmetry Problem: Causal Action Without Moral Agency in Delegated Systems": delegation does not sever the connection between a decision and its consequences. Yet if this connection structurally persists, why does it so often remain invisible? The central thesis: suppressing the visibility of loss does not eliminate it — it accumulates moral tension within the system (S6). That tension neither vanishes nor dissipates. Principles S1, S4, S6, and S7 describe this dynamic together: from epistemic incompleteness, through the indestructibility of loss, to the structural gap between reality and the model — and on to the question of legitimacy as transparency of the link between decision, consequence, and bearer of responsibility.