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# Dr Peter Cheevers account of tutoring a student for one hour in IB Philosophy.   The tutorial was wide ranging, as set out below. In regard to the mechanics of the exam I stressed the importance of answering the question and not wavering in this. I encouraged the circling of key words in the question.  1. The first possible exam question to be discussed was the Cosmological Argument i.e. something caused the Universe to exist, and this First Cause is what we call God. It has been used by various theologians and philosophers over the centuries, from the ancient Greeks Plato and Aristotle to the medieval (e.g., St. Thomas Aquinas). The cosmological argument requires a self-originated motion to cause action. However the argument falters when the proponents of a first cause (God) fall back on the theory that the First Cause is exempt from the question 'who then caused the first cause?' God is outside our concept of time, cause and motion. Yet, the argument persists, if he is outside it how can s/he intervene?H