The Disputation / Philosophical Dialogue Scholastic debate: two positions argued to truth. Abelard and Bernard. Aquinas’s objections and replies. The Platonic dialogue as its ancient model. The Master and the student in dialogue. The question posed. The position defended. The deeper truth emerging through friction. Written dialogues as part of the Library. The Hermetic dialogue tradition — Asclepius, Poimandres — as direct ancestors.