 By the time of Leviathan and De Corpore, Hobbes was convinced that human beings (including their minds) were entirely  material.[3]  Later on he came to think that even God was a sort of material being (Gorham 2013, Springborg 2012). This section focuses on Hobbes’s materialism about human beings. This was not a popular or widely-held position at the time. Hobbes, however, was a materialist. Why was he a materialist?