Abstract: The connotation of aesthetic noumenon is a kind of / expectation0, which is different from the / truth 0 promised by know- ledge, different from the / belief0 p romised by ethics, and different from the / salvage0 promised by moderni st aesthetics. Symbolically speaking , it is not a set of cultural symbols of means pointing to the objective world, nor a humanistic ethic formulation pointing to the subjective structure. The prerequisite to the noumenal analysis of aesthetic values is to clear out the above mentioned three historical promises.The highes t aesthetical principle in li fe is the survival itself rather than man . s inner moralist structure or man . s outer objecti ve force. It is,in nature, the relaxation and ease obtained by means of clearing ou t the / subjective structure0, the non- utilitarianist freedom of Cante,and the beauty of survival itself.

Key words: aesthetic values, noumenon, the beauty of survival , itself