  Wiredu's critics have argued that he fails to recognize that individuals have their own wills and can, at least to some degree, choose their own goals. His position seems to endorse a form of ‘tyranny’ of the community over the individual. Gyekye insists that this is wrong—both descriptively and normatively (Wiredu &amp; Gyekye 1992, 105 note 20).  He agrees that “the whole gamut of values and practices in which the individual is necessarily embedded is a creation of cultural community and is part of his history” and that this indicates a close relationship between the communal structure and individual's goals (Wiredu &amp; Gyekye 1992, 112 note 20).  Yet this close relationship hardly implies that the communal structure is the only factor the individual is required to consider in analyzing these goals.  According to Gyekye,