 In contrast, others have defended the consistency of Cohen’s views, arguing that the Religion completes the systematic ethical project he had started in his Ethics of Pure Will. Cohen’s ethics is concerned with the constitution of the will, that is, the moral self. But this moral self is an ideal, and thus it is only in the Religion that Cohen takes up the question of the human self as a concrete individual. Consequently, Schwarzschild (1975) argues that Cohen’s account of the concrete individual in the Religion completes the theory of moral selfhood begun in the Ethics of Pure Will. Alternatively, Poma (1988) argues that the religious idea of God, since it is the idea not only of universal ethical ideals, but of humanity’s progress towards those ideals, provides a connection between the descriptive and normative aspects of Cohen’s philosophy.