All his books, as he later came to insist, were reflections of his personal history – but then so are everyone’s, he claimed: it was just that he was perspicacious and honest enough to realize a truth which almost all scholars, and especially philosophers, officially engaged in the disinterested pursuit of universal truths, insisted on denying. But when he wrote BT he was still a paid-up member of the club, so he presents his interests and views as ones which should be shared and accepted by his whole culture.
