Ibn Khaldun ranked the unspecialized tribesman as the moral political norm
Evidence
The unspecialized human being constitutes the moral norm. It is he who can lose himself in a solidary unit, and gladly accept collective responsibility. By contrast, the specialists of the towns, for whom specialization is of the essence, are politically castrated and incapable of cohesion, and hence of self-government. Consequently they are also incapable of governing others. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1978
Categorization
- XREF: The reader’s interest in a sighted wife as sole guarantor of order maps onto this claim: a low-specialization generalist position is what enables cohesion and governance.