Aristotle's True Wisdom

     Is true wisdom gained from experience or is the point of it all greater than what mere experience can offer? It is believed of Plato that our purpose is to look beyond experience and to study the truth behind it. Though Aristotle was a student of Plato, surprisingly, he begs to differ with the veracity of Plato's opinion and formed his own theory that true wisdom comes from examining the objects of experience.
    Wisdom is defined as the body of knowledge and principles that develops within a specified society or period based on practice and judgment. If this is the definition of wisdom then how could it be feasible that true wisdom can not be gained through experience? I agree with Aristotle because everything is not just about whatever you read in a book. Even the greatest information is not proven until it has been experimented. Also, it has been impressed upon me that wisdom is indeed associated with time, which is why society usually, appoints the elderly as the wisest not because of what they've studied but because of years of experience, trial and error.
     This brings up Aristotle's point about phronesis, practical wisdom. Phronesis is the kind of wisdom or knowledge possessed by someone with virtue and experience. He exemplified his thought through "The Golden Mean Theory." The mean is not the same for everyone but is the appropriate way of acting, given our individual nature and situation; therefore, the way a poor, struggling woman down by the weights of poverty could not be compared to nor expected to give the same definition of family life as a rich man who owns several companies. The cultivation of wisdom is wrought by experience which is customized by each person and thus divulges a sense of "true wisdom" that is ambiguous yet respected.