Ancient thinkers have a certain phenomenological message, as a result of which a hierarchy is formed from the main aspects of animal and human life, subordinating animals to man. Then we see the emergence of dualism, in which the animal appears as a kind of contrasting background for a person, as a non-person, as a kind of countertype of an ideal person. And finally, as a result of a radical turn, the formed idea of ​ ​ the animal turns out to be so generalized and universal that it even applies to the assessment of human behavior.