There is a big misconception about Monten's work, presenting him in a false light: this is the assertion of many of his researchers that he and his philosophy are more and less of a vivid skepticism. It is true that skepticism is a commendable way to find ways to the truth, but it is not a world view yet, and it can not be, because the skeptical worldview does not build and give any idea of ​​the world. - little for the man, no matter how he repeats his arguments, because he doubts everything. In Monten, doubt is rather a clearing of the terrain, after which a new construction must begin. Doubt may point out our own mistakes to the others, to destroy the old unfit buildings, but in their place, if nothing new is built, it remains a desert and, as it is known, no one can dwell in desert areas.

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After expressing the view that Monten poses the question "What do I know?" "Not to prove his complete skepticism but to understand what is true and what is not. It is much more tolerable to believe that Monten himself has put this question to himself and indirectly to us in order to examine in more detail and in a more comprehensive way what man could acquire certain knowledge and what uncertain knowledge or what the human mind is powerless to encompass. .. Among the most frequently commented essays in Monten, we should highlight his attempts to analyze with an enviable artistic sensibility the education of the children, the freedom of conscience, the mores of the New World and foreign civilizations, friendship and especially death , as well as his famous Apollodium of Raymond de Sebon . Monten's preferred philosophical problems, which he pays special attention to, are his ability to transform the real world, the instability of things in this world, the evolution of the person, and the inability to fix nature in a definitive definition. Those who are inclined to connect happiness in life with the pleasure of reading will surely turn to the essay "Reflections on Verses of Versailles" , "For vanity" and Monten's reflections on love , women, and the art of managing your life.

In his essay "For the education of children," Monten counsels the private educator who gives knowledge to "a child of a good family" to remember that it will not feed on them "but will use them to build their own self-esteem: Knowledge must make him not a scholar, but a clever one. The Renaissance essayist is categorical that he would like to be found a tutor who has a head full of common sense rather than knowledge, though it is not bad to one and the other is sought in him; but mind and good manners are preferable to naked learning ... Parenting should be done through harsh tenderness, Montten advises, not as usual. Instead of encouraging children to science, they offer it to them as something terrible and cruel. Reject violence and coercion; because I do not think there is anything that will make it more obscure and dull a kind with good talents of compulsion. If you want your child to fear shame and punishment, do not teach him to such things ... Following the prescriptions of the ancient Greek philosophers, the French thinker confessed in his essay "About Moderation".

In his essay, "For the three types of communication," Monten tells people that they are "decent and capable people, The purpose of their communication is simply the intimacy, the friend's visit, the talk with him; this is a touch of souls that does not pursue any benefit ... Not only in the conversations about the new laws, the spirit reveals its power and beauty not only in the conversations about the royal affairs; he also reveals his qualities in the casual conversation about our private affairs. I know the people who respond to my taste, even in their silence and their hidden smile; and reveal them better at the table than at the state council. Hippomachus had said he knew the good fighters only by seeing them walking down the street ... " In his essay "For Friendship," Monten recalls Aristotle's statement that "good lawmakers care more about friendship than about justice." For the French thinker, friendship is unobtrusive and ungrateful when "side causes, purposes and considerations are mixed in it.

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