Abstract
The fundamental issues that prompted the postulations of Kwame Gyekye’s moderate communitarianism are a result of the persistent tension between the individual's agitation for the assertion of his rights and expression of his interests on the one hand and the community’s demand for conformity to its values and authority on the other. In the course of finding ways to address the inherent tensions in the relationship between the individual and community, which were not adequately addressed by various theories of individualism and communitarianism in their extreme forms. Kwame Gyekye proposes Moderate Communitarianism as a theory for balancing the extremist and absolutist positions held in the various theories before it. However, this paper finds Kwame Gyekye’s theory inadequate for balancing the conflict between the individual and the community. Though it argues for equal moral balancing of individual rights and the common good. He was unable to follow the logic of his position to the end. It is against this backdrop that this paper aims to reconstruct Kwame Gyekye’s moderate communitarianism using cultural dialectics as a framework for resolving the conflict of interests and responsibility respectively. The paper adopts conceptual and critical analysis as a method of approaching the issues raised in the work. This reconstruction is significant for affirming the possibility of harmony and peaceful coexistence among people with or without similar cultural orientations and also for evaluating the problems arising in the course of individuals' quest for liberty and its expressions.