"virtuous conduct" is correct and perfectly usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to morally upright behavior, such as showing honesty, integrity, and selflessness. For example, "The mayor was praised for her virtuous conduct in leading her city during the difficult economic times."
Plays were intended to uphold virtuous conduct and to point out the dire consequences of evil.
It is this, as much as individual rectitude or mere docility, that encourages virtuous conduct.
Aristotle, however, argues that virtuous conduct is the governing factor in living well and attaining happiness.
Yet, there can be no virtuous conduct without right knowledge, the clear distinction between the self and the nonself.
They took more easily to Rousseau's emphasis on virtuous conduct and instruction via "nature" than they did to his advocacy of the liberation of personality.
The moral licensing was so strong, in other words, that it more or less outweighed the original act of virtue.Moral licensing does not seem to occur when virtuous conduct is obligatory.
Under such conditions, Mencius' preachments to the princes on virtuous personal conduct and humane government fell on deaf ears; yet he continued to speak his mind, even though he knew that he was championing an unpopular cause.
Though pious, benevolent, and highly virtuous in private conduct, Philip, after he became king (September 13 , 1598, showed himself to be indolent and indifferent to his responsibilities.
The bishop's devotion to Vito Lopez might seem odd -- Lopez is not exactly a paragon of virtuous Roman Catholic conduct.
This movement toward community, I also found, has led to the creation of a responsibility-centered industrial culture, a distinctive set of unifying principles and practices that spells out what conduct is virtuous (professional versus unprofessional, for instance) and what goals are legitimate and desirable.
Others would argue that loyalty is always virtuous, though overridden when associated with immoral conduct.
