The age of reason was a time of Empiricism and of Materialism, which brought out philosophers like John Locke and George Berkeley as well as authors like Swift and Pope. These philosophers and authors belong to the Age of Reason because of their use of anti-emotional thought and the idea of Occam's razor. The use of Anti-emotional thought is shown the most in essays written by John Locke. Locke used an idea that he based all of his work on. That idea was knowledge is only conscious understanding. By that statement alone it makes him a writer/philosopher of the Age of Reason. Another Philosopher of the time to use anti-emotional thought was George Berkeley. In his essay "Treatise Concerning the Pri