Over the centuries, philosophy, like many other things, has become much more secular. That said, Schmitt made it clear in “The Problem of Sovereignty” that “in political reality,” sovereigns no longer act according to the idea of ​​natural law (Schmitt 17). Later in this same chapter, Schmitt explains how Hobbes would not understand the idea of ​​superior and inferior because Hobbes believes that whoever has power is subject to the other. However, when Hobbes was writing much earlier, the idea of ​​natural law was still a very important concept in philosophy and Hobbes therefore believed that even the absolute sovereign was subject to the laws of nature, which he clearly states in "On the Laws civil" when he says that the laws decreed by the sovereign "are not contrary to the law of nature (which is undoubtedly the law of God)" (Hobbes