Antique dialogue and dialectics in english language

The article traces an organic connection between ancient dialogue, which is the art of people’s verbal relationships (exchange of opinions, dispute, discussion), and ancient dialectics, which arose in the depths of dialogue as a method of conceptual and categorical thinking, as something that presupposes it, “its own other”. On the basis of rich empirical material, it is proved that dialectics, as the highest form of human mental activity, is rooted in ancient dialogue and rhetoric as a theory of dialogue, oratorical discursive thinking. After getting acquainted with the subject parallels between dialogue, rhetoric (including sophistic) and dialectics, the reader understands Aristotle’s position on rhetoric as an "art corresponding to dialectics", as a certain part and similarity of dialectics.