John Rawls starts out by assuming that people are Utilitarian and that by any Public Policy question the solution would default to the whatever resulted in the largest benefit for the most amount of people.
A New Mode
However, he quickly discovered that this wasn’t always true.
For example, starting from a majoritarian-utilitarian argument it would be difficult to rationalize which slavery was abandoned.
He concluded that there must be a new faculty at play, due to which that option would be selected which yes, presents the biggest amount of good for the most amount of people, yet in which even the one which is Least Well Off still is deriving some benefit which for him and her is a Net Positive.
He calls such people ‘Intuitionist, which we identify with the 6th Paradigm Wordlview and its corresponding Mode of Epistemological Reasoning.