Francis Bacon and Decartes are the pioneers of the mechanical natural view. According to this view, man as subject rises to the principal aspect of the contradiction, but nature has become the passive existence.

• 培根和笛卡尔开创了机械论自然观的先河，在这种自然观中，人作为主体 上升为人与自然关系矛盾的主要方面，但自然却沦为被动的存在。