Historia magistra vitae

The article raises the question of understanding history not as a synthesis of the originally ancient Greek understanding of the world, the world of cosmic order and the Jewish Olam, but a palimpsest, where an erased other text is seen through the written text so that two dissimilar images of the world are manifested. The author examines the possibilities of such an understanding of history through the texts of "On the Orator" by Cicero, "Scholastic History" by Comestor and through a fragment of "Proslogion" by Anselm of Canterbury, who included in his work the objection to it of a certain monk Gaunilon. The idea of the world by V. V. Bibikhin seems to be a variant of resolving the problem of a dual understanding of history