ABSTRACT
One of the basic lessons Ludvig Holberg took from his early acquaintance with the natural law of Samuel Pufendorf and Christian Thomasius was a profound dislike of metaphysics, a standpoint that was also temperamental. The contemporary culture of philosophical eclecticism gives us the most useful guiding thread through the Holbergian labyrinth, but the eclectic theme has some peculiar variations in Holberg. What Holberg has shown us in his practice is best seen as an epistemic attitude, one that may be characterized by means of the expression 'to entertain an opinion'. Several of Holberg's works were pseudonymous. This had nothing to do with fear of censorship or of the public – often his de facto authorship was commonly known and at one stage or another acknowledged by him. Different forms of work certainly dominated at different times of Holberg's life; at the same time the overlaps are very significant, for they show his ability and concern to maintain his pluralism.
