In the history of European Enlightenment ideas, the work of Montesquieu undoubtedly holds a prominent position, simultaneously being the subject of multiple and different interpretive views. On his part, the author of the book supports the stoic root of Montesquieu's philosophy and attempts to highlight specific aspects of the aristocratic thinker's work, with the central reference axis being the timeless philosophical issue of the relationship between freedom and necessity. The epistemological position of law in Montesquieu's philosophy, the question of its philosophical and historical determinism, as well as that of political freedom, are just some of the critical topics discussed in the pages of the book.

A central position of this study is that, in the battlefield that is philosophy, the stoic Montesquieu resists every attempt at doctrinal manipulation. Montesquieu was not an apologist for feudalism, but nor was he a forever liberal. The reflection of the stoic Montesquieu, this enthusiastic supporter of cosmopolitan humanism, was not ultimately trapped within the suffocating class boundaries of the feudal world in which he lived, nor in those of the capitalist world that was emerging in his time. Living in a transitional era, the creator of "The Spirit of Laws," taking into account historical proportions, can only have critical and useful insights for our own transitional times.