The text from Thomas Aquinas refers to a quotation from Isidore, and the quotation itself is giving an etymology. If you read all of what he says about humility, he definitely does not think that it involves believing yourself worse than you are.
He quotes Isidore and endorses what he says. Then (in his reply to obj 2) he says “humility, in so far as it is a virtue, conveys the notion of a praiseworthy self-abasement to the lowest place”.
I agree that Aquinas doesn’t say that humility involves believing yourself worse than you are. But he also doesn’t appear to me to be taking a position that much resembles Lewis’s, which is the point I was making.
The text from Thomas Aquinas refers to a quotation from Isidore, and the quotation itself is giving an etymology. If you read all of what he says about humility, he definitely does not think that it involves believing yourself worse than you are.
He quotes Isidore and endorses what he says. Then (in his reply to obj 2) he says “humility, in so far as it is a virtue, conveys the notion of a praiseworthy self-abasement to the lowest place”.
I agree that Aquinas doesn’t say that humility involves believing yourself worse than you are. But he also doesn’t appear to me to be taking a position that much resembles Lewis’s, which is the point I was making.