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Introduction. The introduction substantiates the need to define prolegomena that contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon called “intercultural communication” (hereinafter IC) in the context of the eternal categories of Good and Evil. Methodology. Within the framework of the method of historical and philosophical reconstruction, the origins of prolegomena are explicated, which, through the prism of the categories of Good and Evil, lead to the juxtaposition of culture and anti-culture, expressed in the opposition medicine - antimedicine. Discussion. The peculiarity of the work is the definition and description in the religious and philosophical aspect of the prolegomena of IC in medicine. The authors refer to these as a language that opens the door to a culture based on tradition, in the light of which the younger generation is brought up and trained, a worldview is formed and preserved. Culture is based on eternal values, especially on faith, driven by love-gratitude to the Creator, to man as a creation of God, to his people and fatherland. In this regard, attention is focused on medicine as a special culture that has its own language in the form of terminogenesis, characterized by homogeneity, heterochrony and continuity. The status of the peculiarity of the culture of medicine is due to the disease, in the confrontation of which the basic models of relationships were formed, preserving and transmitting from generation to generation the experience of cognitive, educational and therapeutic activities. In the global space of the culture of medicine, the past and the present, death and life are combined, interfering, while the basic values of human existence, ideas about Good and Evil are crystallized. Conclusion. The authors come to the conclusion that the religious and philosophical aspect allows to reveal the origins of the prolegomena of the IC, originating in the sacred area, where Good and Evil are distinguished, immanently inherent in human life. Related to the Good are: language, tradition, culture, knowledge of history. With Evil - their simulacra. Today it is especially important to understand that knowledge of the culture of the past has a profound result of a general rise in the level of modern culture that provides effective intercultural communication in time and space.