gjm comments on Using humility to counteract shame - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 18 April 2016 04:58:24PM 0 points [-]

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.