《圣经·创世纪》中这样描述:“上帝在人之前创世的第五天,创造了动物,但却没有为它们命名。直到第六天,上帝按照自己的形象创造了亚当之后,他把动物带到亚当面前,他把它们带到男人的身边,是为了看看他给它们起了什么名字。”人们以此作为动物与人从属关系的根据,这决定了人们对待动物的思维方式。17世纪笛卡尔认为动物只是一架自动机的观点,强化了对动物认识的误解。认为动物没有灵魂,是僵死的物体而不是活的,这一误解导致人在对待动物 In the Bible, Genesis says: “God created animals on the fifth day before the world was created, but did not name them, and until the sixth day God created Adam in his own image, The animals are brought to Adam, who take them to the side of the man in order to see what name he gives them. ”People use this as the basis for animal-human affiliation, which determines the way people think about animals . In the seventeenth century Descartes's view of animals as merely an automaton reinforced the misunderstanding of animal knowledge. Thinking that an animal has no soul and is a dead object rather than a living one leads to the misunderstanding that humans are treating animals