'promote virtue' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in a variety of situations where you want to advocate for moral behavior or to encourage positive values. For example: "Education is the best way to promote virtue in a society."
By Jill Lepore Bradley avowed that his game would promote virtue.
The reopened office to promote virtue and prevent vice is in a new location with no jail.
From the sequence's playful innocence, Panahi extracts a superb twist of cinematic paradox: once a viewer sees Hana tweak events to promote virtue, all on-screen depictions of virtue risk appearing transparently false.
Social conservatives were keen on using government to promote "virtue" or eradicate "vice" (from assisted suicide to pot-smoking), a position highly attractive to a president who starts every cabinet meeting with a prayer.
If the Reagan administration was full of Hayekians (followers of F.A. Hayek) who wanted to take an axe to government, the Bush administration is full of Straussians (followers of the German philosopher Leo Strauss) who want to use government to promote virtue.A third big difference lies in political partisanship.
Advice to American trackers of Saudi textbooks: even the religious police know not only to "prohibit vice" but also to "promote virtue".
On the other hand, Guignon (2004, 2008) argues that in a democratic society, in which the authority of government in setting the political course—stems from the consent of the governed, there is good reason to promote virtues like authenticity that sustain such an organization of government.
Or, risking oversimplification, individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue".
That the London branch of the international gallery is serious about promoting Virtue is not in doubt — the show goes until Nov. 6.
He also called on the local inhabitants to assist Ansar Dine in "establishing the religion, spreading justice, security and ruling between people with justice, and promoting virtue and preventing of vice".
If he encourages governments, nevertheless, to refrain from promoting virtue, that is because he thinks that social forces can effectively achieve that end without government help, and that legal sanctions are in any case useless or counter-productive for the promotion of virtue.
