Yet, as we repeatedly saw this season (or, at least, as I saw this season) House was increasingly acting like a good person, especially in his friendship with Wilson. Elsewhere in the essay, they admit that House is not a moral person, implying that there is no good in the grumpy doctor. So, to sum up, Battaly and Coplan say that House is not benevolent (compassionate or kind), just (fair), or honest. Since he repeatedly fails to do what the honest person would do, House is not honest. For example, in "The Socratic Method", he intentionally tricks a surgeon into operating on his patient - he shrinks the patient's tumour so that it is small enough to be removed by the surgeon. He lies to Tritter, and he lies to his colleagues about being off Vicodin. Though House cares about finding the truth, he does not care about telling the truth. Since he repeatedly fails to do what the just person would do, House is not just. He also reads Wilson's, Cameron's, and Stacy's private medical files without their consent. To illustrate, in "Paternity", House runs DNA tests on the coffee cups of patient's parents without their consent in order to win a bet that they are not the genetic parents of his patient. House also repeatedly violates his patients' and colleagues' rights to privacy.
Since House repeatedly fails to do what a benevolent person would do, he is not benevolent. He routinely issues gratuitous insults and is so consistently callous that we are shocked on the rare occasion when he manages to show compassion. He is unnecessarily cruel to patients and their families, and to his colleagues and friends. House is a spectacular misanthrope who repeatedly fails to do what a benevolent person would do. Heather Battaly and Amy Coplan, in their essay "Diagnosing House" - part of the collection House & Philosophy, edited by Henry Jacoby - describe Dr Gregory House, circa 2009: By the end of the eighth season, you could almost argue that House is a genuinely good person with a few sociopathic habits. When the show started, you would describe House as a jerk who was capable of small moments of goodness. One thing I did enjoy about the finale, however, was that it concluded with - and, I guess you could say, closed - the story arc about the ongoing fundamental change in Dr Gregory House.
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