Today's players do not always respect traditional theory.
In a sense what we did was we added some institutional detail to the traditional theory.
But the traditional theory doesn't, by a long stretch, cover all of the behavior that the public would consider cheating.
The Traditional Theory Under Attack As I mentioned, the consensus on the Theory has recently begun to break down.
When these philosophers consulted the traditional theory to evaluate these wars, they discovered problems that had somehow eluded earlier thinkers.
He observed that investor behavior is often idiosyncratic, and certainly much more complex than traditional theory allows.
Traditional theory holds that the self-starvation of anorexia represents an adolescent's desperate attempt to assert independence in the face of overbearing or intrusive parents.
The result of their efforts promises to be an understanding of the just war that is not only quite different from the traditional Theory but substantially more plausible.
The Revisionist Alternative There are many incoherencies and inconsistencies in the traditional theory of the just war of which those noted in this article are merely a sampling.
But the implausibility of the traditional theory should not lead us to conclude that no plausible account of the just war can be given.
For some commentators, metaphysics is folded, along with science, into traditional theory (see Brunkhorst 1993, 74).
