 The debate about these two broad interpretive strategies has, at times, taken on the significance of a debate about how best to view Cohen an an intellectual. That is, the debate is not simply about whether to prefer an interpretation emphasizing a sharp discontinuity between Cohen’s views in the Religion and his earlier views, or an interpretation emphasizing continuity in his views. Rather, as Daniel Weiss points out, the debate has sometimes been about whether to understand Cohen first and foremost as a Jewish thinker or primarily as a neo-Kantian philosopher (Weiss 2012, 5ff).