3H Homo Humus Humanitas

3H Homo Humus Humanitas is a project that is part of the activities of Valente Academy as a periodic cycle of inter- and transdisciplinary seminar meetings, in collaboration with CLE (Centrum Latinitatis Europae) and Diotima Society. The aim of the program is to build a fruitful dialogue between a variety of disciplinary fields, with a view to personal and collective growth.

Each meeting includes a predetermined theme, discussed among scholars and experts from different professional fields, each of whom is called upon to offer his or her own perspective on the issue based on his or her experience. The insights arising from the debate are then a source of discussion between the audience and discussants, in a lively multilateral conversation. The exchange of ideas thus becomes an indispensable tool for a rediscovery of the roots (Humus) and the inherent natural and multidisciplinary specificity (Humanitas), of Homo.

Homo as an individual in a society undergoing profound transformation, who, as a modern Ulysses, makes himself “polytropon,” multifaceted, widening his gaze and transcending his own limits.

Humus as a soil in which to rediscover one’s roots, a primordial link with the past, in order to project oneself into a deeply conscious future.

Humanitas as a peculiar characteristic unique to humankind, in which intelligence and feeling are intertwined in a semantic ambiguity that has always been debated.