So let's take a closer look. Intuitive answers . Some of the approaches yield quick and easy answers that are only supported by someone's gut feeling. Philosophical approaches play on a supposition of the nature of the world as the underpinning for the rest of their approach towards the question. Philosophical approaches differ from intuitive approaches in one fundamental way.
Philosophers first adopt a basic model of how they think the world works.
They then use this ontology to decide how to think about the relation between men and animals. There are three major ontologies that have deeply affected the way in which people think about this relation. Totemism The Great Chain of Being Dualism and the Great Divide 3. The third way of approaching this question is the scientific approach. This approach tends to avoid both intuitive answers and major philosophical commitments.