# des-rights-animals

Date: 1649

## The fact

Animal-machine teaching weakens claims of animal standing. René Descartes's documented role is: The same texts that mechanise animals reduce their standing. Sign lives on the rights path here.

## Context

The animal-machine row is the harm-to-bodies heading. Sharing anatomists is required. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin as a second animal-machine book. Humanitarian versus rights paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals neighbourhood at https://iep.utm.edu/descarte/ (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals neighbourhood (https://iep.utm.edu/descarte/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals neighbourhood (https://iep.utm.edu/descarte/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

A public denial of animal thought-as-human is a rights-harm path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The attached driver is protection-of-minority-rights. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Naming René Descartes does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1649-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- René Descartes: https://factrail.ai/people/rene-descartes

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/descarte/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/des-rights-animals