Name: Jefry Pineda

Subject: PHILOSOPY 2
Date of submission: SEPTEMBER 06, 2022
Learning exercise 3

Direction: Arrange the following components of a moral act according to intention, means and
end.

For example, Intention Means Ends

Nourishment, eating, To have a meal Eating Nourishment

to have a meal
Praying, enjoying of To be Holy Enjoying of God Praying
God, to be holy
Self-perseverance, To preserve one’s Killing an Self-perseverance
killing an unprovoked self from harm unprovoked
aggressor, to preserve aggressor
one’s self from harm
Winning the To be the next city Vote buying Winning the mayoral
mayoralty post, vote mayor post
buying, to be the next
city mayor
Rehearsing dance To dance gracefully Rehearsing dance standing
steps, to dance steps
gracefully, standing
To save the life of the To save the life of the Abortion of a fetus Survival of mother
mother, survival of mother
the mother, abortion
of a fetus
Name: Jefry Pineda
Subject: PHILOSOPY 2
Date of submission: SEPTEMBER 06, 2022
Learning exercise 4

Direction: Write your reflection on the quotation below.

1. “No man voluntarily pursues evil. To prefer evil to good is not in human” (Socrates)

As human being, who is able to distinguish either good or bad I can say that it is true that no man will
voluntarily pursues evil. Evil is the root of all bad things, unrighteous act and sin, which fear by human.
When there is one good person, and was determined as good he/she will never get tempted to do evil
nor choose to prefer into putting himself to it.

2. “The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right” (Thomas Huxley)

Which is definitely true, no human will ever care to use his freedom to do evil instead doing the right
thing. Affiliated with our freedom is our free will, a will to do things that will give us pleasure and
satisfaction in a limit. Sometimes as we intent to satisfy our self we overused our freedom, we forget
that we have freedom to care, freedom to do right. So I must say, in every chosen act that we wanted to
do we must evaluate it first if it will satisfy me or overused it to do bad.
Name: Jefry Pineda
Subject: PHILOSOPY 2
Date of submission: SEPTEMBER 06, 2022
Learning exercise 5

Directions: Read the hypothetical case and answer the questions that follow: (10 points each)

Case Study Presentation

An elderly gentleman presents himself to the emergency department of a small community
hospital. The patient has contractures and paralysis of his left hand, he apparently has complete
expressive and at least partial receptive aphasia. Upon questioning, the man takes off his right
shoe and point to his right great toe and grimaces, apparently indicating problem in that area. The
nurse is unable to gather any further information from him because of his difficulty in
communicating in attempting to help him. He shakes his head indicating that he is alone.
Curious, the nurse asks him how he came to the hospital. The patient smiles and proudly
produces a driver's license from his shirt pocket. Subsequently, the nurse leaves the room and
returns few minutes later to find that the patient left the hospital, having received no care. The
nurse suspects that because of his current physical condition, the man is unsafe to drive a motor
vehicle.

Questions:
1. What are the ethical implications in this situation?
Answer: The ethical implication in this situation was due to uncertainties and difficulty in
communicating in attempting to help the elderly by the nurse, the nurse couldn’t able to help tle
elder to treat his problem in his body. I am not saying that the nurse performed unwell rather she
put some concern to the man after knowing that the patient left in hospital having received no
care. Which signifies her being morally good person.
2. What ethical principles are involved?
Answer: The ethical principles involved in this situation are veracity and non-maleficence.
Veracity happened during the nurse questions the elder gentleman in an association of truth. On
the other hand, the non-maleficence principle occurs when a nurse herself intends to gather
information about the patient but sadly she didn’t make it because of her difficulty in
communicating with the elder. Her intention of getting information is to make sure she could
treat the patient accordingly and never get wrong, based on the professional pledge she made.
3. Should the nurse pursue avenues to locate the patient and ensure that he is not endangering
himself or others by driving, would this be breach of confidentiality?
Autonomy?
Answer: In the first place, the patient is not controlled by the nurse, the time when the patient left
the hospital supposedly the nurse has no obligation to the patient at all, rather the nurse put
concern for the elder man. If the nurse pursues to locate the patient to ensure he is not
endangered she would not breach confidentiality, because her concern is the health condition of
the elder man not in concern to go against entering privacy concerns. However, her pursuant
implies her personal liberty, and her freedom to choose and implement her own decision
constraints to her duties.