As the centuries have passed, philosophy, just like many other things, has become much more secular. That said, Schmitt made it very 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 discusses how Hobbes would not understand the idea of ​​superior and inferior because he believes that anyone who 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 so Hobbes believed that even the absolute sovereign was subject to the laws of nature, which he clearly states in “Of Civil Laws” when speaks says that the laws issued by the sovereign "are not contrary to the law of nature (which is undoubtedly the law of God)" (Hobbes