Philosophy illuminates human existence, giving reason and meaning to things that are otherwise dim. As the term is generally used today, it serves as an conceptual organisational system for how we live our lives -- we build our lives mixing our own ideas and experiences with (usually) ideas that we get from other people, through our culture and on our own. Those who are uninterested or not capable of the grand synthesis of values involved in working out their own way of thinking often accept a religion or philosophy from someone else, which can get them most of the way towards a complete worldview by which to understand and work with the world.
My philosophy can be divided into three areas of focus, firstly what it means to live as a philosopher, secondly, my framework of value theory and its applications, and third, the statement of and work that derives from my particular values. The first is not meant to exclude people from debate, but rather to indicate the particular ideals and procedures that I think are important for those who would work on philosophy. The third is value engineering -- it includes a statement of the specific values I hold, how they interact to form a value system, and in another portion, leads into the politics that derive from my value system. The first section can rightly be understood to have some dependency on and similarity to the third, as ideals for philosophers are themselves dependent on value configurations. The second area of focus, my value theory, can be understood as a framework to understand how values might be organised in a philosophy. It ideally does not embed or descend from value preferences, or to the degree that it does, that dependency is ideally minimal.