 For Cohen, these distinctive views are consequences of his interpretation of Kant’s philosophical method. Cohen and his students, Paul Natorp and Ernst Cassirer, would take this philosophical method to be the defining characteristic of Cohen’s Kantianism, rather than any of Kant’s particular arguments or doctrines (Cassirer 2005 [1912], 115; Natorp 1912, 194–5). As Cohen himself puts it, “[p]hilosophy is not ‘doctrine’, but critique” (Cohen 1885, 577), and it is above all the Kantian philosophical method that distinguishes Cohen’s philosophy from pre-critical philosophy.